Greek centre-right poised to
win Sunday's election
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| An election official arranges ballots for the upcoming general elections at a polling station in Piraeus |
Greeks vote on Sunday in a national election that, according
to the polls, Greece’s opposition centre-right New Democracy party is heavily
favoured to win.
Greece’s leftwing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, called the
snap election just over a month ago, after his Syriza party was hammered in
elections for the European Parliament and local governments. At that time
New Democracy was nine points ahead, and there is little indication as we speak
that the gap has narrowed.
The New Democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has pledged a
more business-friendly administration if he’s elected. He has promised
tax cuts and more efforts to draw in foreign investment, to pull Greece out of
a ten-year economic slump.
Mitsotakis’s message has found wide appeal among small
business people who have suffered the most from the ongoing crisis, as well as
those concerned about rising crime and a lack of police protection.
Tsipras, on the other hand, claims his four-year socialist
rule lifted Greece out of tutelage to the European Union and European Central
Bank and put the ailing national economy on a sounder footing.
Yet even though Mitsotakis is well ahead, there’s still a
question mark over whether he’ll get a governing majority.
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