Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week expressed a hope that Greek expatriates living abroad will be able to vote in general elections back in Greece by 2023, qualifying the prediction as passing “through discussions with other political parties,” naftemporiki.gr reports.
The center-right Mitsotakis, heading a big Greek government delegation in New York City on the occasion of the annual UN General Assembly, spoke at gathering of Greek-Americans in the metropolis’ Astoria district.”
“We’re working so that, after long last, you can acquire the right to vote from your place of residence; to legislate the institution of voting by mail, and based on current election rolls (of registered voters),” he noted, adding that a counter-proposal by opposition parties not to count expatriates’ votes in the general vote – but only for the election of three deputies – is a “fraud”.
Meanwhile, in continuing a mini “media blitz” while in the United States, his first visit to North America after being elected prime minister in early July 2019, he sat for an extensive Q&A session with the Washington Post, in an article bylined by Lally Weymouth.
The WP interview reads: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/greeces-new-prime-minister-wants-to-turn-the-country-around/2019/09/25/0fac41e6-df42-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html)
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