A week from the elections, contest is heating up

A week before the elections for the European Parliament, city and regional councils, all political party leaders are on the road, trying to convince the citizens they are worth their votes.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to speak at Piraeus Sunday evening, while opposition leader and, according to the polls, the favorite to win the Euro-election, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is wrapping his tour of Crete with a rally at Chania, his family's birthplace.

Last night, in the city of Kozani, in northern Greece, Tsipras said the choice was stark: voters would either "give a vote of confidence to...the plan to mitigate the iniquities and restore the economy or open the back door for the past...to blow away our gains and our victories."

"You should know I rely on you and I have set a personal political goal: to achieve at the euro polls something that even Constantine...