Opposition bracing for defeat, says PM

The main opposition party is bracing for a defeat in the May 21 polls and PASOK has gone back to the "bad unionist" days of the 1980s, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday, insisting that an outright victory for the ruling conservatives is the only way forward for the country.

"All of SYRIZA's rhetoric seems to me as if it is getting ready for a defeat," the New Democracy leader said in an interview with Skai radio, accusing his leftist adversary, Alexis Tsipras, of making his campaign personal. 

"Eighty percent of his rhetoric consists of attacking me and my father," Mitsotakis said. "They [even] said that if we could tamper with the vote, we would."

The conservative leader reiterated comments that appear to rule out the possibility of a coalition with PASOK, which came third in the last election, in the event that ND does not win with an...