Greece awaits outcome of Alexis Tsipras gamble: ‘We have all aged’
At times Alexis Tsipras has the looks of a movie star, his clean-cut features belying a quiet charisma. From the posters pasted on the lamp-posts of boulevards and facades of buildings, it is his face that greets onlookers ahead of today's crucial general election. "Tomorrow has an identity," they say.
At 41, Tsipras is his Syriza party's trump card. The hope is that even at this late stage - with polls showing the race to be so close the outcome is impossible to predict - the man adoringly referred to as Alexis will be the force that brings voters in. The ballot, the third this year, has drawn little publicity and even less enthusiasm, but it is poised to play a decisive role in a country whose battle against bankruptcy has assumed epic dimensions in recent years.
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