Greece’s conservative New Democracy party held a commanding lead in Sunday’s parliamentary election, an exit poll showed, with former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set to clinch a second term in office.
Cars formed long lines on national roads around Attica on Sunday afternoon, as voters returned from voting centers outside the capital.
The far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party, which has been backed by jailed neo-Nazi Ilias Kasidiaris, looks set to cross the 3% threshold needed to make it into Greece’s Parliament, with the latest exit polls showing it clinching as much as 5.6% of the vote.
Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks Sunday, official projections based on early returns showed.
The average price level faced by Greek households in 2022 for consumer goods amounted to 88% of the European Union average, according to recent data from Eurostat.
The separate exit poll conducted jointly by six polling agencies, after Sunday’s general elections, presents a range expected to be reached by each party. The poll again shows Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy achieving a comfortable win over the main opposition.
The first exit poll by Kapa Research after Sunday’s general elections, shows that Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his party have likely secured a safe outright majority to form a single-party government.
With prices ranging from 30,000 to 170,000 euros per week, luxury homes are being rented this summer in various regions of the country, with the average duration reaching two weeks.
After eight years of being dragged through the courts, spending who knows how much money and having his reputation dragged through the mud, the former artistic director of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival was acquitted of all charges of financial mismanagement.