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Conservative New Democracy party wins landslide victory in Greek elections
Updated On: 26 June, 2023 08:49 AM IST | Athens | AP
Despite scandals that hit the Mitsotakis government late in its term, including revelations of wiretapping targeting senior politicians and journalists, and a deadly Feb
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Greece`s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory in the country`s second election in five weeks Sunday. Near complete results show him gaining a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term. Jubilant supporters gathered outside party headquarters in Athens, cheering, clapping and waving blue and white party flags. Near complete results show his party has won 40.5 per cent of the vote, crushing his main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, which was struggling to reach 18 per cent , two percentage points lower than the last elections in May.
His second term as prime minister "can transform Greece at a dynamic pace of development which will increase salaries and reduce inequality, with better and free public health care, with a more effective and digital state and a strong country," Mitsotakis said in a televised statement about the election results. Voters, he said, had "definitively closed a traumatic cycle of lies and toxicity that held the country back and divided society." Sunday`s vote came just over a week after a migrant ship capsized and sank off the western coast of Greece, leaving hundreds of people dead and missing and calling into question the actions of Greek authorities and the country`s strict migration policy. But the disaster, one of the worst in the Mediterranean in recent years, did not affect the election, with domestic economic issues at the forefront of voters` minds. Mitsotakis` party was projected to win 158 of Parliament`s 300 seats, thanks to a change in the electoral law that grants the winning party bonus seats.
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