Response issued to op-ed criticizing PM of being right-wing

In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, and the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, Endy Zemenides responded to an op-ed earlier in the week titled "The Adults Are Back in Charge of Greece. And They Are Really Right-Wing" and written by Matthaios Tsimitakis, a journalist who worked in the press office of former prime minister Alexis Tsipras under the previous SYRIZA administration.

In their letter, the writers take issue with  Tsimitakis' accusation that the recently elected New Democracy administration "far from being a moderate, liberal force, seems to be a right-wing party with pronounced authoritarian tendencies," responding that "Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the right-of-center Greek prime minister in office for four weeks after decisively winning a national election,...