Postal vote, reforms in justice and the need for a 'resilient state' dominate PM's weekly review

Postal vote, reforms in justice and the need for a 'resilient state' dominate PM's weekly review

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The introduction of postal voting and other major changes and reforms were the main focus of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' weekly Sunday post on Facebook, summarising the notable events and actions taken by the government in the previous week. CE Report quoting Athens-Macedonian
Mitsotakis presented postal voting as a possible answer to the problem of increasing voter abstention in the elections and an additional way to facilitate voting by Greek citizens living abroad, as well as those within the country who are in various ways prevented from casting their vote on election day.

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