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Kyriakos Mitsotakis (center), here with her daughter, presented a new Greek government of 51 members on Monday, July 8th. REUTERS / Costas Baltas

The new government has 51 members, ministers and deputy ministers. The government scheme presented by Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeks a balance between the parties' cliques, personalities from the private sector and a small number of women, only five.

In the Greek press this July 9, the day after the presentation of the government by the new Conservative Prime Minister, the reactions are varied, reports our correspondent in Athens , Charlotte Stiévenard .

For the Kathimerini newspaper, close to the New Democracy in power, it is a government that combines experience and openness with the integration of many technocrats. The conservative daily salutes the democratic maturity shown by the two parties during the transfer of power between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras on Monday.

Ta Nea , rather close to the socialists of Pasok title on " the secrets of the new government ", trying to dissect the choice of ministers. In a subtitle at the bottom of the page, the daily notes that the first message of the Eurogroup to the new government is a sting reminder: " respect the commitments ".

This is also emphasized in A Rizospastis , the Communist Party newspaper, for which New Democracy will only apply post-memoranda agreements, just as Syriza did.

Finally, the Journal des rédacteurs , on the left, speaks of a Liberal government ready for anything. He underlines the low participation of women and attempts to give a " modern aroma " to all with the choice of some more centrist personalities. He also criticizes the choice of some members of the New Democracy to speeches of far right.

No state of grace

Be that as it may, this government will have to quickly prove to the voters that it is ready to get on with the job, since the Conservatives' victory is a vote of vexation, not at all a vote of adhesion . explains the historian and writer Olivier Delorme, who lives part of the year in Greece.

According to him, very few of the voters of New Democracy " hope anything from the government that arrives and even more from its leader, " which he describes as " a kind of caricature of the system that has reigned in Greece for decades, because the Greek state was born weak with a lot of foreign interference that never stopped and these big families were in a way the relay of these foreign interferences ". In short, in his eyes, " the Greeks voted backwards for this system that comes back today ."