Mitsotakis calls on Tsipras to resign if he loses May 26 Euro-election

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resign on May 26 and call an early national election if he loses the election for the European Parliament two weeks from now.

Most polls show Mitsotakis' New Democracy with a comfortable lead over the ruling SYRIZA.

A national election is not due until October.

In a press conference carried live on most Greek TV channels, Mitsotakis chided Tsipras for promising an extra month's pay to pensioners ahead of the election, but added his party will vote for the one-off "allowance," as he called it.

Mitsotakis challenged Tsipras to accept his party's proposal not to lower the tax-free income bracket, saying not accepting it would be hypocritical. In any case, he said, a New Democracy government would implement this proposal.

The current government has agreed to lower the...