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Mitsotakis counting on a strong majority in upcoming elections

Based on the results from the May election, New Democracy is once again set to win a comfortable majority later this month - something the latest polls confirm as well. As we approach the June 25th elections, the questions then are whether this will be enough for New Democracy to form a single-party government, and what the opposition will look like as PASOK and SYRIZA battle for dominance of Greece’s center left. Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos with the latest analysis from Athens ahead of this second round of elections. 

Read Tom Ellis’s latest in Kathimerini here: Aims and expectations

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Greece: 90 migrants rescued from US-flagged yacht in distress

Mitsotakis: ‘We are not destined to live in perpetual tension with Turkey’

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