Naftemporiki — Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized Tuesday that if elected in office, his government will proceed with tax cuts for businesses and self-employed professionals without the prior approval of institutional creditors.
Mitsotakis, a former administrative reform minister in the Samaras government, spoke on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of leadership of ND.
Speaking live on a local television station’s prime-time newscast, Mitsotakis directly referred to a “unilateral reduction” of tax rates.
He expressed confidence that creditors’ will approve ND’s plan, which will include equivalent specific spending cuts.
Asked on touch on a sensitive issue that often haunts the pro-reform Mitsotakis, namely, possible redundancies in the public sector, the ND president and son of former premier Constantine Mitsotakis said spending cuts do not translate into firings.
