Greek PM engages in self-criticism before elections

In a wide-ranging interview with Skai Television Tuesday night, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras engaged in broad self-criticism while holding up Greece's exit from the international bailouts and its contentious name deal with North Macedonia as his administration's two key achievements. 

Just a few days before snap elections that his leftist SYRIZA party is expected to lose, Tsipras admitted that his administration displayed "naivety" during the first six months of power in 2015 when it clashed with the European establishment, and admitted that it made mistakes in its handling of the middle class. 

"We were prepared but they were better prepared than we were," Tsipras said, referring to the country's international creditors. 

As for his abrasive former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, Tsipras admitted that he was "a wrong choice of person." 

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