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May 22, 2023

Conservative Party of Greek PM Mitsotakis Claims Bulk of Votes But Falls Short of Outright Victory
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In Greece, conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis celebrated
after his New Democracy party won over 40% of seats in Sunday's
parliamentary elections, though he called for a second round to ensure
an outright victory rather than forming a coalition government. The
leftist Syriza party, which came to power on an anti-austerity platform
in 2015, won just 20% of seats, while a progressive party led by former
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis failed to qualify for
Parliament. Mitsotakis, who came to power in 2019, ran on an
anti-immigrant platform and touted his government's efforts to slow the
arrival of asylum seekers on Greek shores.


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