Alexis Tsipras, the prime minister of Greece, has announced he is stepping down and has called a snap election for Sept. 20, less than a year since he took office as the leader of the left-wing coalition Syriza.
The move marks another episode in the long-running and seemingly never-ending Greek crisis. It is evidence of the pitfalls of Tsipras’s populist discourse. His strategy has rendered Greece almost ungovernable for more than a year.
