Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy Party, led by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won the parliamentary elections by a wide margin. DEA News.
After counting 97.09% of the vote, he gets 40.79% of the vote and 146 out of 300 seats in parliament, according to the country’s Ministry of Interior. The opposition Radical Left Coalition SYRIZA-Alliance for Progress, led by former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, received 20.06% of the vote and 71 seats in parliament.
The pan-Greek socialist movement PASOK with 11.51%, 41 seats, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with 7.21% of the vote – 26 seats, the far-right “Greek Solution” (“Fox Hellenics”) with 4.46% – 16 seats.
The election results showed that New Democracy cannot form a government alone. In this context, Mitsotakis said he aims to form a one-party government, which means holding new parliamentary elections in the country.
It was previously reported after New Democracy had processed 66.68% of the ballots. accepted 145 seats in the parliament and the Coalition of the Radical Left SYRIZA-Alliance for Progress – 71 seats.