Government must deliver on three fronts

Having achieved what was thought until last May as unthinkable - winning a second four-year term with more than double the score of his closest rival - Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' overarching goal is to solidify his support well beyond the conservative electorate and maintain the preference of centrist voters.

Seeking to represent voters that range from the mainstream right to the center-left, Mitsotakis must implement policies that satisfy all of them. To the conservatives, he must appear tough on security issues; to the liberals, he must become the catalyst for an overdue modernization of the state; and to those of the left, he must take climate change seriously and embrace some of their causes.

In his policy statement on Thursday, Mitsotakis had something for all: To the conservatives, he presented himself as a "responsible patriot," implementing a massive...