Greece is a European success story
But the prime minister may not get much credit for it in the coming election
KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, 55 but looking much younger, fizzes with energy and satisfaction as he reviews his four years in the Greek prime minister’s office with a rapid-fire list of achievements and successes. It is hard to imagine, as he reels off the sunny statistics, that he might be about to lose his majority and even his job; yet that is what the opinion polls predict.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Only the first round beckons ”
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