The centre-right government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been increasingly using “tyrannical” methods such as controlling the media to keep the opposition voices in check, Greece’s former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias told EURACTIV, warning also about the closed power system of oligarchs that blocks any progress in the country.
“The Mitsotakis government uses tyrannical methods as Aristotle described: it is not a dictatorship, but methods and precautionary measures taken by a majority, such as controlling the press or using the pandemic to take repressive measures, to prevent the minority from becoming a majority,” said the former diplomacy chief in the leftist cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.