Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of Greece’s New Democracy party aiming for a second term in office, is on a roll. The momentum is his, the polls are looking good, and, if anything, the opposition appears assured of only one thing in the general election on Sunday: defeat.
Five weeks after more than 6 million voters gave his centre-right party a stunning 20-point victory over Syriza, the leftwing movement that stormed to power at the height of Greece’s economic crisis, the electorate is poised to repeat the result – only this time under legislation that favours the winner.
