Higher salaries a main focus of a second-term New Democracy gov't, PM Mitsotakis tells CNN (video)

Raising salaries is a main priority for New Democracy if it wins a second four-year term, party leader and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday evening.

In a brief interview, Mitsotakis expressed satisfaction with the country's economic growth rate, which is higher than the European growth average.

Voters “bought into our plan for a future for a Greece that is much more prosperous,” says victorious Greek PM @kmitsotakis in our exclusive interview. “We’ve done better than many people expected.” pic.twitter.com/d8XdEq9h9v

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) May 23, 2023

If New Democracy forms a strong single-party government after runoff elections on June 25, the country will also be able to achieve investment-grade status, the Greek premier noted