The predominance of New Democracy and the return to the prime ministership of Kyriakos Mitsotakis are seen by the international media ahead of Sunday’s election.

Politico: A resounding victory for the N.D

An article by Politico speaks of a resounding victory for New Democracy, in an extensive analysis ahead of the June 25 elections. Specifically, the publication states that Kyriakos Mitsotakis will return to the prime minister’s office, more powerful in order to promote investor-friendly reforms.

In the same publication, reference is made to “Greek bonds and stocks have rallied in recent weeks on reassurance that a pro-investment government will prevent any setback in the dark days of the eurozone debt crisis.”

Mitsotakis will be dominant with a comfortable majority,” Petros Ioannidis, political analyst and founder of About People, told Politico. “Usually when you win the elections for the first time you have a honeymoon period, in the second term you don’t. The paradox here is that, because the opposition has disappeared, Mitsotakis has a new honeymoon”, adding that “SYRIZA bet on anger and after so many years of economic crisis and pandemic, people wanted stability”.

Associated Press: ND registers a victory even in the strongholds of the opponents

Greeks return to the polls on Sunday, writes the Associated Press, “for the second election in five weeks”, while it predicts a landslide victory for New Democracy after it “records victory even in strongholds that rivals have dominated for decades”.

In the same publication it is stated that “Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the 55-year-old leader of the conservatives, is seeking a second four-year term as prime minister. His center-right party, New Democracy, won by a huge margin in the May elections.”

“As Greece emerges from a major economic crisis in the past decade and the turmoil caused by the pandemic, voters are happy to return to a prime minister who brought growth and lower unemployment,” according to analyst Yiannis Tsirbas, the opinion of which it is hosted in the publication.

Bloomberg: Greece’s return to investment grade is being judged

The return of Greece to the investment stage with Kyriakos Mitsotakis is judged in these elections for Bloomberg, while he reports that in these elections he will secure a majority.

Bloomberg notes that “taking into account the good performance of the economy, the rating agencies are ready to reward Greece with the investment grade, which it lost 13 years ago. Political risk now appears to be the main obstacle to such a decision. Markets, analysts and rating agencies want a stable government with a strong majority in Parliament, so that Greece can continue the pro-business reforms and fiscal path that has already begun.”

DW: Nothing goes right for the left

The defeat of the left is at the heart of the analysis for Dw and it typically states that “nothing is going well for the left-wing politicians of Greece at the moment. Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras and the left-wing SYRIZA alliance reduced his percentage from 30% in 2019 to just 20% this year.”

RND: 80% support immigration policy

Regarding the recent shipwreck in Pylos, “even though the accident has been preoccupying public opinion and the media for ten days, it is unlikely to significantly affect the election results. Other problems are more pressing for citizens, such as inflation, the labor market and health policy”, as estimated by the German Journalism Network (RND).

Nevertheless, “the wreck brought the issue of immigration policy back into the election campaign. But even before the election campaign restarted, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras tried to exploit the disaster. He accused Mitsotakis and the conservatives of being jointly responsible for the deaths of people, because with their policies they seal the Greek border with Turkey, forcing migrants to try to cross longer and more dangerous passages from North Africa to Italy. […] However, Tsipras’ argumentation did not find much resonance.”

The RND comments that “over the last four years, Greece has secured large parts of its land border with Turkey with kilometers of fences, reacting to the crisis of February 2020, when tens of thousands of migrants incited by the Turkish government besieged the Greek-Turkish border for weeks. In the Aegean, the Mitsotakis government has stepped up patrols to keep migrant boats out of Greek territorial waters. That is why, although Athens’ migration policy is controversial in the EU, it is approved by approximately 80% of the Greek population, according to opinion polls.