If Republicans Want To Win the White House in 2024, They Could Look to Greece

Landslide victory for Greek conservatives follows a consistent, hard-hitting campaign.

AP/Thanassis Stavrakis
Greece's prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, takes the oath during a swearing in ceremony at the Presidential palace, Athens, June 26, 2023. AP/Thanassis Stavrakis

ATHENS — “Seismic,” a word with Greek roots, was the laconic headline seen on many newspapers here after snap parliamentary elections in May that saw the center-right New Democracy party of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, trounce his main opposition on the left. A little more than a month later, landslide is how most Greeks describe a conservative triumph in the second round. 

Following a hotly anticipated second round of voting on Sunday, Mr. Mitsotakis clinched a second four-year term by a record margin, scooping up more than 40 percent of the vote. In doing so he blew rival left-wing Syriza and its charismatic leader, Alexis Tsipras, a former prime minister, out of the water. Syriza took less than 18 percent of the electoral pie, which came as a shock to many in a country that still has a strong socialist ethos and robust communist party. 

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