After counting 66.68 percent of the vote, the Greek Interior Ministry said that Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy party is ahead by a wide margin in the Greek parliamentary elections, but cannot form a government on its own. It has been reported DEA News.
“New Democracy” gets 40.83% of the vote and wins 145 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s opposition Coalition of the Radical Left, SYRIZA-Alliance for Progress, received 20.1% of the vote and 72 seats in parliament.
The panhellenic socialist movement PASOK will take on 42 duties with 11.91%. The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) received 7.06% of the vote and won 25 seats.
The far-right “Greek Solution” Kyriakos Velopoulos won 4.5% of the vote, winning 16 seats.
The publication notes that it is unlikely that a coalition government will be formed due to disagreements, as none of the factions won an absolute majority in parliament. The agency states that it is expected to repeat the elections in Greece with a strong proportional system.
Earlier, Popi Tsapanidou, representative of the Greek opposition party Coalition of Forces of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (SYRIZA – PA). accused The ruling New Democracy party took action to rig the elections. He announced that SYRIZA will sue for election fraud.