Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras asked the Greeks to give him a strong mandate in the September 20 elections that he hopes to win. “People are standing on their feet,” said Tsipras, speaking at the town of Komotini, northern Greece, on Monday as part of his campaign. “We’re all standing and claiming, not a second chance, as it is usually said, but a first chance. A first chance for the Left to finally govern.”

Refering to his success at the January 25 elections, Tsipras said that “the first period lasted only seven months and the opportunities to govern were very few.”

He noted that SYRIZA’s program, presented at the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair (TIF) on Sunday was not the product of a group of people cut off from the real people and their agonies. “It’s the road map of liberation taht we are proposing to the people,” he said. For the third time this year he asked people to give him a strong mandate just as they had given him in the snap election in January and the referendum in Thessaloniki.

He reminded the crowd that the government has managed to show the kind of changes it wants to make.

But are the people satisfied?