In Greece, political spat over lockdown turns personal

Holiday goodwill during the coronavirus lockdown? In Greece, it's been in short supply between the nation's two leading politicians.

A spat has erupted over competing claims that the prime minister and his main rival broke the spirit of pandemic restrictions that have renewed financial hardship for many voters.

Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was photographed last weekend posing with his mountian bike but without a mask alongside five motocross riders on a hillside trail outside Athens.

Government officials insisted he had not broken lockdown rules for exercise but Syriza, the left-wing main opposition party, urged him to publicly apologize for displaying "arrogance and a lack of empathy" for his fellow Greeks.

The government hit back Monday, citing articles in pro-conservative newspapers reporting that Alexis Tsipras, the former prime...