Leader of Syriza concedes ‘excesses and mistakes’ as opponent says he deserves ‘Golden Raspberry award’ for the economy Greece’s political leaders traded barbs in a televised debate billed as potentially decisive for the general election on 20 September. Opinion polls have put the leftist former governing party Syriza and the main opposition party, the centre-right New Democracy, neck and neck – far from the easy victory the Syriza leader, Alexis Tsipras, had envisaged when he called the election. Continue reading...