Mitsotakis party leads elections in Greece

According to data announced by the Greek Interior Ministry, the New Democracy Party’s voting rate was 40.46 percent, according to unofficial results where the polls opened at 80.47 percent. The Radical Left Alliance (SYRIZA) came in second with 17.84 percent of the vote.

According to preliminary results, the PASOK-KINAL alliance received 12.1 percent, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 7.56 percent, the Greek Solution Party 4.51 percent, the Victory Party 3.75 percent and the Freedom Watch Party 3.13 percent.

The Spartan Party, whose support was declared by Ilias Kasidiaris, a former Golden Dawn member of parliament, who was barred from running in the elections by the Greek judiciary, entered parliament with 4.72 percent of the vote.

By current results, New Democracy alone surpassed the 151 seats needed to come to power.

THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT ESTABLISHED IN THE GENERAL ELECTION OF MAY 21

In the May 21 general election, New Democracy became the first party with 40.79 percent of the vote, but failed to reach the 151 seats needed to come to power on its own.

New Democracy was followed by SYRIZA with 20.07 percent, PASOK-KINAL with 11.46 percent, KKE with 7.23 percent and Greek Solution with 4.45 percent.

In elections where the participation rate was 61.1%, the number of parties that passed the 3% electoral threshold and qualified to enter parliament was 5.

In the general elections on May 21, it was announced that no party could reach the vote rate to come to power alone, and it was announced that it would go to the polls again on June 25. (AA)