KKE Says Mitsotakis Admitted His Policies Do Not Meet People’s Needs

Greece’s Communist Party launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after his nearly three-hour interview at the Thessaloniki International Fair. The KKE said the prime minister had effectively admitted that people could not expect their needs to be met, now or in the future, if his political direction remained unchanged.

The party focused on Mitsotakis’s acknowledgment of military preparations and Greece’s participation in NATO spending that exceeds 3% of gross domestic product. It also criticized arms programs such as the “Achilles Shield” initiative with Israel.

According to the KKE, these choices create shortages in essential areas of social policy, including education and health. The party said the government’s priorities leave fewer resources for the needs of society.

The KKE also rejected what it called Mitsotakis’s convenient comparisons with earlier PASOK governments and Alexis Tsipras. It said those forces share a common strategy and argued that people should instead compare their present lives with the possibilities offered by the era of artificial intelligence, which the party said governments serving capital deny them.

The party concluded that the central issue is for people to demand that their real needs be met. It said genuine stability in the people’s interests can come only through a confrontation with the dominant policy and by moving together with the KKE.