Greece's conservative New Democracy party was on course for a crushing victory in a national election on Sunday, official results showed, APA reports citing Reuters.
New Democracy had a lead of 40.8% of the vote based on 80% of the votes counted versus 20.1% for the leftist Syriza party.
Following are the official results released by the Interior Ministry.
PARTIES |
VOTES% |
ND |
40.8 |
SYRIZA |
20.1 |
PASOK |
11.7 |
KKE |
7.1 |
EL |
4.5 |
Other parties |
15.8 |
Source: Interior Ministry data, with 80.4% of votes counted
ND: Conservative New Democracy party, leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Syriza: Leftist coalition party, leader Alexis Tsipras
PASOK: Socialist party, leader Nikos Androulakis
KKE: Communist party, leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas
EL: Right-wing Elliniki Lysi (Hellenic Solution), leader Kyriakos Velopoulos