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Constantine Karamanlis, leader of the center-right New Democracy party, is increasingly seen as Greece's prime minister-inwaiting, although he has never held a cabinet post. For the past year, Karamanlis's party has consistently led the governing socialist PASOK party in opinion polls. At local government elections in October, the New Democrats made broad gains nationwide in mayoral races. They also kept control of the northern city of Thessaloniki and Athens-where Dora Bakoyanni, a former culture minister, was elected the capital's first woman mayor.
At forty-five Karamanlis is still considered young to head a big Greek political party. But he bears one of the most famous names in the country's modern history: his uncle and namesake, who served as prime minister and president, is credited with restoring democracy after the 1967-74 military dictatorship and ensuring Greece...