PM comes unstuck over Macedonia, austerity in European vote

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was left struggling for his political survival on Monday after his SYRIZA party, stung by austerity and a bitter rift over an accord with North Macedonia, got hammered in European Parliament elections.
Leftist SYRIZA, which stormed the Greek political stage in 2015 on the back of a popular backlash against painful economic reforms, suffered its first major defeat in years to the opposition conservative New Democracy party.

Smarting from the fallout, Tsipras said he would call snap elections, as New Democracy promptly demanded his resignation saying he no longer had a popular mandate. By law, the earliest the country could call elections is June 30.
"Basically people were tired of the same people in power," said political analyst Theodore Couloumbis.

Results from the European elections show the Conservatives at least 10...