Under Alafouzos’ ownerships Kathimerini had a liberal-conservative political orientation. Alafouzos’s media companies had controversial relations with the Tsipras lead government, mostly centred on the Skai owned radio and TV stations. In 2015 both were boycotted by politicians of the Syriza party for a few days in 2015 and then for a more prolonged one in July 2018 Syriza and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parties in the ruling coalition following criticism of the government’s handling of the 2018 Attica wildfires. The boycott ended before the July 2019 elections.