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At a school in the Athens suburb of Pangrati, Aris Manopoulos, a shopkeeper in his 50s, said he had chosen “reason”.
“I voted for New Democracy so that the country can move forward and continue to grow economically,” he said.
Tsipras on the rope bamba
Syriza, the left-wing party that won 20.07% of the vote on May 21, could fall further, according to projections, which now put it at between 16.8% and 20%. The election will decide whether Greece will have a “government without control” or “a democratic balance” on Monday, with “a strong opposition able to play its part”, Tsipras said after voting.
This time, the winner of the election will have a bonus of 50 deputies in the 300s, which could help Mitsotakis decisively. By giving New Democracy an outright majority in the July 2019 elections to the detriment of Syriza, Greeks wanted to turn the page on years of financial crisis and bailout plans, which destroyed 25% of national GDP and threatened to push the country out of the zone. of the euro.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, son of a former prime minister and uncle of the current mayor of Athens, did not fail to boast about his economic balance sheet, marked by growth of 8.3% in 2021 and 5.9% in 2022, with a drop unemployment. Yet Tsipras, once the hope of Europe’s left, warned during the campaign that his rival should not be given a “blank check” that would allow him to pursue a “hidden agenda” of antisocial policies.
The Syriza leader is staking his political future on Sunday’s elections after admitting after May 21 that he had considered resigning.
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