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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

From firebrand to PM-in-waiting, Greek leftist smells power

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's far-left Syriza party, recently traveled to Frankfurt and Rome to meet European leaders. Today, it polls higher than any other party, leading by a margin of between 4 and 11 points over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's conservatives. Key to Syriza's ascent, party officials say privately, is a calculated effort to moderate the radical leftist rhetoric that ...


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