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.

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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