PM takes dig at opposition leader over call for 'strong mandate'

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday accused his main rival, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, of threatening voters with a mid-August second round if a majority government does not emerge from snap polls on July 7.

"The only thing Mr Mitsotakis did not say is that we will be visited by aliens if he's not given a strong mandate," Tsipras quipped in an interview with Star television on Tuesday night.

"I think that there is only one dilemma in these elections: will we continue on the path forward, all together, or will be go back to the relatively recent past, to five years ago, to the administration of [ex-ND PM Antonis] Samaras with Mr Mitsotakis as a top minister, to a society in a state uncertainty, where everyone had to fend for themselves?" he said.

Tsipras also reached out to center-left voters amid mounting suggestions by Movement for Change...