Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s probable next prime minister, needs to pick some fights with his political family to move the country forward
a fold in the hills an hour north of Thessaloniki, Serres is old Greece: settled, traditionalist, patriotic. The town is a stronghold of the conservative New Democracy party, whose founder, Konstantinos Karamanlis, was born nearby. So it was a natural place for Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the party’s leader and Greece’s probable next prime minister, to gin up his base in the final weekend of campaigning ahead of an election on July 7th.
Is Mr Mitsotakis up to the task? Greece’s recovery belies its vulnerability to an economic downturn and a new European debt crisis; perhaps one caused by Italy’s fiscal theatrics. Set against that backdrop, a return to the indulgence and patronage of the pre-Tsipras era would be calamitous.
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