A wise verdict

The Greek people voted wisely, as they have done in the past. They have given Kyriakos Mitsotakis a comfortable majority and a strong mandate. A percentage so close to 40 percent is unprecedented in the years of the crisis, as is a government with an outright majority. 

There are those, of course, who think that the parliamentary majority and the margin of 8 percent that New Democracy secured over SYRIZA are still too small. These are probably the same people who tried to convince us two or three months ago that the incumbent leftists were here to stay and foresaw a win for the center-right opposition in the European elections of just a couple of points and were eyeing up to 15 percentage points in Sunday's snap polls.
As the late New Democracy leader Constantinos Mitsotakis liked to say, the party has the "soul of a songbird," in that it is easily frightened.

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