Politics
Greek prime minister to seek outright majority after huge election lead
Due to the country’s proportional representation system, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ 40 per cent vote share was still not enough to secure a parliamentary majority
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, whose conservative party has won a landslide election but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government, has said he will seek a second election to consolidate his victory without the need for a coalition partner.
Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party was 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, with nearly 90 per cent of the votes counted on Sunday.
But due to the current ...
