Skertsos: The country's fate is in the citizens' hands

Government spokesperson Akis Skertsos on Thursday invited the citizens, ahead of Sunday's general elections, "to carefully weigh where Greece was in 2015, where it was in 2019 and where it is today in 2023," in his briefing to the press in Thessaloniki.

"We ask the citizens that want to move forward if they will risk returning to eras we want to forget," he noted.

Skertsos said that "obviously we do not believe we are living in heaven. We are fully aware that Greece has a long way to cover to converge with the European acquis. We need to transition from 'staying in Europe' to 'we are Europe'."

"A careless vote, a vote of discontent with New Democracy (ND) may bring about an unfortunate government coalition and I am not scaremongering. I am merely presenting the facts as they are. The country's fate is in the citizens' hands," he warned.