2023-05-22 03:01:00
The right-wing party of the outgoing prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prevailed this Sunday in the elections in Greece, but in the absence of an absolute majority, he points to new elections to govern alone. The New Democracy (ND) party, in power for four years, won 40.8 percent of the vote, beating the Syriza party of the former head of government Alexis Tsipras, who received 20.1 percent of the votes, with 87 percent of the total counted.
Despite this clear victory, ND will not be able to govern alone, an objective stated by Mitsotakissince it lacks the necessary absolute majority. “Citizens want a strong government with a four-year horizon”the 55-year-old prime minister said this Sunday, adding that “today’s political earthquake calls on all of us to speed up the process for a definitive government solution.”
For his part, Alexis Tsipras, 48, also spoke out in favor of new elections, when pointing out that “the electoral cycle is not over yet”. Tsipras had appealed to the socialist leader Nikos Androulakis with a view to a possible alliance in case of obtaining favorable results, but he formulated a series of demands. In case the winner cannot form a governmentas many analysts predict, new elections will be called at the end of June or beginning of July.
The elections on Sunday were held with a new proportional electoral system that eliminates the prize of up to 50 seats for the party with the most votes, but in the repetition that is presented as very probable, that bonus will be reintroduced. In these new elections, it would be enough for ND to get 37 percent of the votes to govern with an absolute majority.
Tsipras, leader of the Syriza party, which in 2015 embodied the hope of the European left, urged the country to “turn the page on four difficult years.” The loss of purchasing power due to the inflation y low wages It continues to be a headache for many families, after a decade of crises and international financial bailouts. public debt of the Mediterranean country of the European Union continues to be more than 170 percent of its GDPy Inflation was close to 10% last year..
At the end of February, a rail disaster that killed 57 people, including many students, sparked mass demonstrations against the Conservative government, accused of negligent security. Mitsotakis, son of a former prime minister and uncle of the current mayor of Athens, was also hit hard by a scandal of illegal wiretapping of political leaders and journalists.
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