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Monday, May 22, 2023

Greek PM’s election win driven by recovery from economic crisis

The electorate have credited Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his conservative party with building back from disasterIf voters handed the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s conservative New Democracy party a thumping 20-point win and its best result since 2007 on Sunday, it was at least partly because they credited him with steering Greece to economic safety.Three mammoth bailouts totalling €280bn averted disaster during a decade-long crisis that reached its peak in 2015, and Greece only emerged from a draconian regime of spending controls ordered by its international lenders last summer. Continue reading...


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