prime minister Greece and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the conservative New Democracy (ND) formation, emerges as the winner of the parliamentary elections According to preliminary estimates, it will be held at the polls this Sunday.
This was reported by public television ERT; accordingly, according to estimates based on questions put to voters and published after the closing of polling stations, the ruling ND is a varies between 36% and 40% of the votes.
Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing opposition Syriza party comes in close behind, with between 25% and 29% of the vote.
Pasok-Kinal Social Democrats came in third with between 9.5% and 12.5% of the votes, followed by the Communist Party of Greece (6-8%) and the far-right Greek Solution (3.5%). 5.5%).
Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’ party, the left-wing MeRA25, which is expected to receive between 2.5 percent and 4.5 percent of the vote, could be excluded from the Assembly if it fails to pass the 3 percent threshold required to enter the 300-seat Parliament.
In a similar situation is the Freedom Journey party (2.2% – 4.2%) of Zoe Konstantopulu, former Syriza MP and former Speaker of the Parliament.
These estimates would confirm that neither party has won the necessary majority for government without forming a coalition with other formations.this makes it very likely that nearly 10 million Greek beneficiaries will predictably have a new appointment with the ballot boxes at the beginning of July.
The first partial data from the vote count, which allows the final result to be “confidently estimated”, is expected around 17:30 GMT, the Home Office said.
Mitsotakis presented himself during the election campaign as the “only option” to ensure stability and keep Greece on the path to growth, given the division of the left.
chipras To “overthrow the worst right-wing government in the country’s history”, Pasok-Kinal proposes to form a “progressive government” with the Social Democrats.