New Democracy interim leader Meimarakis resigns

Meimarakis announced that he would call on the secretary of ND parliamentary group Yiannis Plakiotakis and ask him to start immediately the procedure to appoint a new interim leader. Moreover, he called on the other candidates to resign from their posts. Adonis Georgiadis accepted the call and already resigned from party parliamentary spokesman as well as Kyriakos Mitsotakis while Apostolos Tzitzikostas cleared out that he will not step down from his position as local governor.
He argued that the issue was totally technical and it should not have taken a political dimension. "Everybody knew the specific company; it is highly hypocritical to suggest they were not aware of it and ask for the resignation of the chief of the political electoral committee, who had no relation with the technical issues."
Meimarakis stated that he was never particularly interested in the position of the interim leader. "I told them to hand over the reins in August, but nobody wanted it," he said. "I am ready to hand over the interim leadership, I want to clarify that I do not resign from the process that has already started and nobody should dare to imagine that can stop it," he added.