On early elections

A government normally calls early elections after it has spent a few years in power and with the aim of arresting its political decline. This is not the case with New Democracy today.

Speculation about an early election in Greece is rife. The idea is that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis would secure victory before his political capital - which has soared thanks to the so far successful management of the coronavirus pandemic - begins to wane. The argument however is essentially an expression of insecurity as it is based on the assumption that the precipitous rise in the premier's popularity is a product of circumstance and fleeting, and that it will be used up in just a few months (given that the proposed date for an early ballot is September). It is important that Mitsotakis himself ruled out the prospects of a snap poll in an interview with Kathimerini a couple of weeks...

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