"The recycling of individuals and 'empty' words about 'restarting' cannot get New Democracy government out of the difficult position it was put in by the struggles of the people and youth, which expose both the crime in Tempi and the entirety of government policy, which sacrifices all social needs for the profits of the few," the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said on Friday, regarding the government reshuffle.

"The solution for the people is not to disguise and revamp the bankrupt bourgeois political system, whether this is expressed at the level of the government or at the level of the 'comfortable' opposition. What is needed is to strengthen the questioning of the dominant policy and its proponents by the people and for this to acquire radical characteristics, within the current hostile state itself, until its complete overthrow," the party added.