Scenarios of early elections are unfounded, Economou says
"These predictions (of early elections) are completely unfounded," government spokesperson Yiannis Economou said in reply to a question during a press briefing on Thursday.
"Greece needs stability, strong unity and determination and the prime minister's concern is to take decisions both at home and in cooperation with our partners abroad in order to have the best possible response to the very adverse consequences of the unprecedented developments we are seeing on a global level," he said.
"We have repeated many times that any discussion about elections at this moment in time is completely without foundation," he said.
Referring to the government's expectations from the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting, he said: "The fact that we have disagreements with Turkey does not mean that we should not talk. The prime minister approaches this debate with realism, our positions are known, they are positions based on international law and this gives us extra confidence. On the other hand, it is clear that both countries, despite our differences, face a number of common challenges after the Russian invasion of Ukraine concerning our wider region and it is in the interest of both countries to seek common ways to address these challenges, especially given the climate that has now arisen globally, in the EU, in NATO, of unequivocal condemnation of all attempted revisionism, challenges to international law but also of the blatant violation of the independence and territorial integrity of countries."
