Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls general election

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called a May 21 general election despite his party’s narrowing lead in opinion polls in the aftermath of the country’s worst train disaster.

The February collision between a passenger train and a freight train in northern Greece left 57 people dead and stirred public anger.