Greece holds its second election in a month and Prime Minister Mitsotakis is hoping for a convincing win.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to rule with an outright majority, arguing Greece needs "stable" government
But without a majority of more than 150 in the 300-seat parliament, he says his New Democracy party cannot form the stable government that is necessary. He has formed a reputation as a Teflon-coated leader, fending off a series of damaging crises in the past year including a rail disaster and a wire-tapping scandal that brought down the intelligence chief and his own nephew, who worked as the prime minister's chief of staff.
Mr Mitsotakis has mounted a passionate defence of the coastguard and condemned the people smugglers as "scum".He said that, at the time he was in charge during the 2015 European migrant crisis, when more than a million people travelled through Greece, the coastguard, police and military had all worked "with one objective, human life".
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