A storm erupted in Greek politics after Ethnos revealed that the wife of a government official named Lazaridis was hired into the position her husband had vacated at the General Secretariat for Equality. Opposition parties PASOK, SYRIZA, and Nea Aristera pounced, with Nea Aristera accusing Prime Minister Mitsotakis of having reserved a public-sector position for Lazaridis. SYRIZA’s Pavlos Polakis went further, challenging journalists to investigate the qualifications of Lazaridis’s spouse, offering honorary membership in his party’s “transparency committee” to anyone who uncovered the details.
Meanwhile, Mitsotakis visited the Evangelismos Hospital twice in one day to check on close aide Giorgos Mylonakis, who collapsed during a morning coffee and underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm. His surgeon described a critical 10-day window ahead.
