It’s not just the economy

Several simple conclusions emerged from last Sunday's elections. SYRIZA was roundly defeated and this defeat was not due exclusively to the name deal with North Macedonia, but also to its style of governance. It paid - with interest - for its lack of emotional intelligence and its tolerance for loathsome behavior like that of Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis.

Opposition chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his New Democracy party did not just win Sunday's elections, they also laid the foundations for the conservatives to receive a serious boost in the upcoming general election by a margin that has not been seen since before the crisis.
Movement for Change (KINAL) managed to hold its own, but it failed to grow into a calculable force that could form the third pole of the political system. This is something that its officials need to seriously consider, especially if...