Greek conservatives win parliamentary election

Greek conservatives win parliamentary election
# 22 May 2023 00:13 (UTC +04:00)

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

#
#

THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED