Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy party since He is generally associated with the centre-right , espousing economically liberal policies. Mitsotakis previously was Leader of the Opposition from to , and Minister of Administrative Reform from to He is the son of the late Konstantinos Mitsotakis , who was Prime Minister of Greece from to He was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B constituency in After New Democracy suffered two election defeats in , he was elected the party's leader in January Three years later, he led his party to a majority in the Greek legislative election.
Following the May Greek legislative election in which no party won a majority and no coalition government was formed by any of the parties eligible to do so, Mitsotakis called for a snap election in June. On 24 May , as required by Greece's constitution, the Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas to be the caretaker prime minister for the interim period.
During his terms as Prime Minister, Mitsotakis has received both praise and criticism for his pro-European , technocratic governance, austerity measures, [ 6 ] and his handling of the COVID pandemic in Greece.
At the time of his birth, his family had been placed under house arrest by the Greek military junta that had declared his father persona non grata and imprisoned him on the night of the coup. After a while, they moved from Turkey to Paris and returned to Greece in In , Mitsotakis graduated from Athens College. From to , he attended Harvard University and earned a bachelor's degree in social studies , receiving the Hoopes Prize.
Later, his senior thesis was published as a book titled The Pitfalls of Foreign Policy , which received mixed reviews.
