2023-05-21 19:53:07
21.05.2023
The Greek Prime Minister’s party topped the results of the legislative elections, according to partial results, but Kyriakos Mitsotakis may find it difficult to form a stable government due to his lack of a majority. New elections may have to be held if a government cannot be formed.
Preliminary results showed today, Sunday (January 21, 2023), that Greece’s ruling New Democracy Party is on its way to achieving a major victory in the parliamentary elections over the left-wing opposition party Syriza, but it will likely not be able to reach the threshold needed to form a government alone.
With more than half of the votes counted, he came Conservative New Democracy Party In the lead, with 40.9 percent, compared to 20.1 percent for the Syriza party, which ruled from 2015 to 2019. Analysts said that the New Democracy party is unlikely to be able to achieve a clear majority.
A poll of voters when they left the polling stations showed that the “Nea Democracy” (New Democracy) party advanced by a large margin in the Greek parliamentary elections, so that the party of the current conservative Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, obtained between 36% and 40% of the vote.
The Greek Ministry of Interior predicted that the New Democracy party would win 145 seats out of 300 in Parliament, which is less than an absolute majority of six seats.
This result is an impetus for the current Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose government found itself facing thorny issues such as wiretapping, the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis and the deadly train accident in February, which sparked public anger.
Despite significant progress, the New Democracy Party cannot guarantee that it will be able to form a governing coalition following changes to the electoral law. . 36 parties participated in the elections.
In the past, the largest party in the elections was to win a bonus of 50 seats in parliament, which led to the formation of one-party governments, and the New Democracy Party managed to rule the country alone for the past four years.
However, this procedure has been abolished, and the outcome will be determined by simple proportional representation.
Partial results show that the “Nea Democracy” (New Democracy) party is leading by a large margin in the Greek parliamentary elections
It is noteworthy that the existence of coalition governments was a rarity in the country Greece In the past, often unsuccessful. If a government is not formed within 10 days, new elections will be called next July.
The cost-of-living crisis is at the center of the campaign, as parties try to entice voters with pledges to raise the minimum wage and create jobs. And after Greece was on the brink of exiting the eurozone at the height of its debt crisis in 2015, Mitsotakis, who was elected in 2019, presented himself during his campaign as the perfect choice to get out of the crisis, winning at that time with just under ten million votes.
If a government cannot be formed in the next two weeks, which many analysts expect, new elections will have to be held at the end of June or the beginning of July.
The winner of this second ballot will then benefit from a bonus of up to 50 seats, which will give him a stable majority.
A.A.J/A.H (AFP/Archyde.com, dpa)
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