Like most Greeks, Costas Simitis, the prime minister, likes to spend his holidays on an Aegean island. But unlike many in his Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as Pasok, which has held power for all but three of the past 19 years, Mr Simitis eschews the showier perks of office. He owns neither a villa nor a kotero, one of those fancy little motor yachts. On quiet Sifnos, his favourite island, he pays rent. When he wants a trip at sea, he joins a local fishing family in an old-fashioned wooden boat.
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