The Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is scheduled to meet with the head of the River Stavros Theodorakis at noon, followed by the President of the Union of Centrists Vasilis Leventis at 1:30pm, in order to discuss the upcoming Constitutional review and electoral law reform.
On Thursday the Prime Minister met with the leader of the main opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the president of PASOK Fofi Gennimata and the Secretary General of the Communist Party Dimitris Koutsoumpas.
“The rules of the game cannot be changed in motion” to serve political interests, argued New Democracy leader Mitsotakis on his way out of the PM’s office. Mr. Mitsotakis added that his party will only discuss expatriate votes and breaking down the larger constituencies.
Similarly PASOK chief Gennimata commented that her party “will not vote for an electoral law in installments” adding that “we did not agree on anything”. According to Mrs. Gennimata the Prime Minister did not present a comprehensive proposal and noted that the discussion was mostly ‘exploratory’.
The KKE Secretary General argued that there is no basis for a consensus and stressed that there did not appear to be any light on the horizon. During his conversation with the Prime Minister, Mr. Koutsoumpas noted that “the people are suffering in the tax offices” and that there are greater problems to discuss.
According to government circles, in his meeting with the political leaders the Prime Minister has set five main issues to discuss:
- The seat bonus allocated to the first party or coalition
- The 3% threshold to enter Parliament
- Giving 17-year-olds the right to vote
- Allowing expatriates to vote and
- Breaking up the larger constituencies
