It should be recalled that Mitsotakis formed a committee in 2021 regarding the National Strategy for LGBTQI+ Equality in 2021 where among others it referred to “gender fluid” and “non binary” persons.

Defending his Equal Rights policy in Parliament in 2022, Mitsotakis had said:

  • “Experts tell us that almost one in a hundred people may be born with some kind of gender variant. These operations, which are still being carried out in our country today, have already been described as torture by the UN and the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency, which recognize the right to self-determination of the body… I listened carefully, and I will not hide from you, with emotion, to what the representatives of intersex people testified to the Parliamentary Committee. And I learned a lot that I did not know, about what happens on the fringes of Greek families, without most of the time becoming widely known. I was sincerely saddened by the mistakes of the past that led to tragedies because we lacked knowledge and courage. And I realized how important the initiatives that we are taking today are for these fellow citizens of ours. I will repeat, therefore, that the time has come to look squarely at the truths that are taking shape in our society.”

Extreme Positions of the Woke Agenda

Asked to comment on the “Donald Trump phenomenon,”  Trump’s positions on current social issues and political developments in the United States, the Greek PM partly attributed Trump’s return to power to the rise of extreme positions of the woke movement in the US.

“I believe, and I have commented on this before, that the extreme positions of the ‘woke agenda’ movement in the U.S. caused the pendulum to swing sharply in the opposite direction. It is a natural reaction,” Mitsotakis said.

He also stressed that there is a clear distinction between Europe and the United States, expressing the view that woke agenda extreme positions, which are primarily found on the liberal campuses of top American universities, have not reached Europe.

“I do not see us having similar problems here that would justify such a reaction. This is primarily an American phenomenon,” the prime minister emphasized.

Addressing the rise of the “extremist” right, both in Europe and the United States, Mitsotakis clearly acknowledged the existence of such a trend, both in Europe and in the U.S.

However, he pointed out that in Greece, the situation appears to be under more control. “I believe that in Greece we have managed to limit it. This, of course, does not mean that there isn’t a significant portion of the population who choose to vote for parties further to the right of New Democracy,” the prime minister concluded.