Mitsotakis puts New Democracy on election footing as cabinet sets 2027 priorities

Cabinet sets ministry priorities

On Monday, 2 November, the cabinet meets at 11:00 at Maximos Mansion to review what each ministry will deliver before the 2027 elections. Each ministry was asked to name four priorities to be finished by mid-2027, each with a timetable and deliverables. Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Minister of State Akis Skertsos have reviewed the proposals and singled out 16 central government priorities. Among them is the decision setting the new minimum wage, due in March 2027, and the handover of the Tripoli student residence, scheduled for November 2026. The list also includes the first student residence at Panteion, planned for May 2027, tenders to upgrade 15 student residence buildings, and preparations for Greece's EU Council presidency in the second half of 2027, to be completed by June 2027.

Bills and ministerial presentations

Labour Minister Niki Kerameus will present a bill setting rules for artificial intelligence in the labour market and protecting platform workers, transposing EU Directive 2024/2831 into national law. Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis will table a bill turning the Judicial Police into a Security Corps. Deputy Education Minister Giannis Vroutsis will present the alignment of Greek law with the revised World Anti-Doping Agency code. Deputy Infrastructure and Transport Minister Giorgos Kotsiras will present a paper on urban transport, while Thodoris Livanios and Takis Theodorikakos will each table omnibus bills covering their ministries. Hatzidakis framed the cabinet work as a push for results in the final stretch before the vote, saying on 1 November in an ERT interview:

“We are also interested in the government producing results in the final stretch. The best forecast for the election result is effort, seriousness and work.”

Executive Secretariat in Piraeus

After the cabinet, Mitsotakis will chair the first session of New Democracy's Executive Secretariat in its new composition, which follows the party congress in May. The meeting takes place at party headquarters on Pireos Street. The 16-member body includes Hatzidakis, Adonis Georgiadis, Konstantinos Kyranakis and Giannis Smyrlis. Party sources say Mitsotakis is expected to give instructions and put New Democracy on election readiness for 2027, even though at least six months remain before the polls are called. Organisational work has begun and tours are intensifying, coordinated by Kyranakis, Smyrlis, Stelios Kontadakis and Thanasis Nezis. Kyranakis is due to present the tour schedule, the ways party members will contribute to the government programme, and the renewal of the party machinery and candidate lists.

Polling target and programme drafting

New Democracy remains first in the polls, but it has yet to find the element that would lift its numbers, and the expected effect of measures announced at the Thessaloniki International Fair has not yet been confirmed. The party's estimated electoral support is close to 30%, a level it has not secured, and inside the party that threshold is seen as the mark of a large party. Below it, insiders argue, a case for a second election aimed at winning a majority would not be convincing. Hatzidakis pointed to the 2023 cycle, when polls three to four months before the vote had the party at 32% to 34% before it rose to 41%:

“In 2023, polls three to four months before the elections showed New Democracy at 32% to 34%, and then we went to 41%.”

Hatzidakis sent letters on 19 October asking ministers and MPs for proposals for the next government programme by the end of November. Mitsotakis is reported to be telling ministers not to let up before the vote, while cost of living pressure on households remains a central issue for the government.