Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he's 'sick and tired' of Greece being the poster boy for the economic crisis and the austerity policies that followed. Here's a closer look at the new PM
In comparison, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s populist left-wing Syriza was able to garner 31.53 percent of the votes, earning only 86 seats in parliament. Syriza had 145 seats in Parliament after the 2015 election.
That being said, Mitsotakis believes his family’s past and connections have no positive bearing on his electability. In an interview with the Associated Press before the election, he According to Mitsotakis, Tsipras is a populist who over-promised and under-delivered. In the same interview with AP before the election, Mitsotakis predicted his rival’s defeat.
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