ND Leader Mitsotakis Talks to CNBC, Says He Will Cut Taxes, Redo Primary Budget Goals
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS – Leading in polls with elections coming this year, major rival New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his plan to cut domestic and business taxes and try to get the country´s creditors to agree to lower primary surplus goals. Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is reeling after reneging on anti-austerity measures, including imposing an avalanche of tax hikes that raised the corporate rate to 29 percent and hit beleaguered Greeks with higher rates on a range of goods, including their beloved coffee. That was done to get a third bailout in the summer of 2015, this one for 86 billion euros ($97.61 billion) Tsipras said he...