Europe, December 1st, 2002
Constantine Karamanlis, leader of the center-right New Democracy party, is increasingly seen as Greece's prime minister-in-waiting, although he has never held a cabinet post. For the past year, Karamanlis's party has consistently led the governing socialist PASOK party in opinion polls. At local government elections in October, the New Democrats made broad gains nationwide in mayoral races. They also kept control of the northern city of Thessaloniki and Athens--where Dora Bakoyanni, a former culture minister, was elected the capital's first woman mayor.
At forty-five Karamanlis is still con...
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