Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday he will not seek to form a coalition government following this weekend’s election, paving the way for a second vote in June he hopes his conservative party will win outright.
Authorities on Crete have said that the returning officer from one polling station is missing, along with the bag containing the votes cast. The officer was assigned to the 198th polling station, which was based at the 13th Primary School in Iraklio, the island’s biggest city.
Police in the northern peninsula of Halkidiki are investigating a possible murder-suicide, in which a man shot his wife dead before turning the gun on himself in front of their 8-year-old child.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to return a three-day mandate to form a coalition government just hours after receiving it from President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Greek stocks and government bonds rallied sharply on Monday, cheering the ruling New Democracy party’s election showing. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party fell just short of a majority in Sunday’s vote, making a second election likely. But with its lead larger than polls predicted, analysts expect New Democracy to win an outright majority.
It was the most tantalizing of victories. Despite inflicting the most crushing defeat in half a century on the opposition, Greece’s center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected Monday to seek a second national election within weeks, as he lacks the majority in Parliament to govern alone. With 99.55% of the votes counted early Monday,…
With PASOK’s ratings increasing by more than 40% compared to 2019, there is a clear possibility now it could be catapulted back to being the main opposition party.
Kostas A. Karamanlis, who resigned as transport minister following the tragic train collision in Tempe in February, appears to be on track for re-election as an MP in Serres, northern Greece.
As leader of the first party, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to receive an official mandate to try to form a coalition government from President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at 12.30 p.m.
The huge win by New Democracy in Sunday’s election creates a whole different political landscape than the one most pundits were predicting.