Kyriakos Mitsotakis is reliving 1989. That's not a good thing.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is spurring voters to give him an even bigger majority on June 25 than they did on May 21. There are practical reasons, but also historical.
New Democracy extolled the results of the May 21 election as a vindication of its policies, and is now exhorting voters to perform even better in the June 25 repeat election.
The conservatives scored 40.79% of the vote, rising above their 2019 majority of 39.85%, a remarkable achievement given the political costs of the pandemic lockdowns, refugee and security crises with Turkey in 2020, and soaring energy inflation during the Ukraine War.
The Coalition of the Radical Left, Syriza, in contrast, has collapsed itself to 20.07% of the popular vote, down from the 31.53% with which it lost the 2019 election, and the 35.46% with which it won the 2015 election.
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