President votes in central Athens
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou voted on Sunday at the 44th primary school in central Athens.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou voted on Sunday at the 44th primary school in central Athens.
Greeks headed to the polls again on Sunday morning in a bid to elect a government for the second time in just over a month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plan to meet next month in Ankara in an attempt to warm up their bilateral relations, according to reports.
Greeks went to the polls on Sunday for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives a second term in office.
Two Russian nationals were arrested and charged in Thessaloniki early Sunday morning for disrupting the safety of a flight from Manchester, England to Dalaman, Turkey, after their plane was forced to land at Thessaloniki’s international airport.
Markets are expecting Greece to regain investment grade soon after Sunday’s general election, provided that a strong government emerges from the process.
Course for Freedom’s Zoi Konstantopoulou, a former parliamentary speaker, called on Greeks to seize the opportunity and elect her party to the next sitting of parliament.
Greek Solution leader Kyriakos Velopoulos, who voted in Thessaloniki, said that his party is the only solution to Greece’s problems on Sunday.
The participation rate in the general elections on Sunday was at 11.29% by 10:30 a.m, with 888,995 citizens having cast their vote so far, the Interior Ministry announced. The ministry said it had received figures for participation from 17,130 polling stations, or approximately 80% of the total.
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for a stable government for the next four years from the polling station in Kifissia, where he voted.