Pre-election polls unable to separate PM Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader 20 years his senior On the face of it, the old regime that led Greece over the fiscal cliff and into the economic abyss in 2009 should not be in with much of a shout in Sunday’s elections – even if the new one nearly got the country ejected from the eurozone. But if it is largely fury among leftist Syriza voters at their party’s abrupt U-turn on austerity that has helped New Democracy bounce back and overturn a 25-point polling deficit, Greece’s 40-year-old centre-right party also had an unexpected weapon. Continue reading...
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