![]() ![]() Each will have a maximum of three days to try to form a coalition. “The outcome of yesterday’s vote creates a window of opportunity for Greece to turn the page and move away from the toxic populist politics that emerged during” the financial crisis, he added.Īfter Mitsotakis, the mandate will pass to Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, and then to Pasok leader Nikos Androulakis - neither of whom have any realistic chance of success. “Syriza’s inability to convey a coherent and credible economic plan also helped PM Mitsotakis and his ND.” “ND’s overwhelming performance is largely due to the positive track record on the economic front of the past four years,” the senior political risk analyst at Teneo told the AP. Greece has little tradition of successful coalition governments, despite a series of forced matches during the fraught years of financial crisis.Īnalyst Wolfango Piccoli, who has followed Greek politics for years, said voters on Sunday prioritized the economy and political stability over everything else. Mitsotakis had long suggested he would not seek a coalition partner, whatever the election outcome, in the interest of stable governance. “The country needs a strong and stable government with a four-year mandate and as soon as this is settled the better.” ![]() as soon as possible, perhaps even on June 25." ”That is why I will return the mandate to you this afternoon, so that we can head for new elections. “I can effectively see no way for the current parliament to form a government,” he said in a brief televised exchange. But the Harvard-educated former banking executive said there would be no point. Mitsotakis, 55, met Monday with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who formally gave him the mandate to try and form a government. Markets welcomed what seems to signal the end of the political uncertainty that troubled the NATO and European Union member following the 2009-2018 financial crisis, with the Athens stock exchange general index surging more than 7% Monday and Greek bonds rallying. “What is there to say, (Mitsotakis) destroyed them," he told The Associated Press. ND's margin of victory far outstripped pollsters' forecasts and was the biggest since 1974, when Greece's first democratic elections were held after the fall of the seven-year military dictatorship.Īthenian Fotis Hatzos said that while he had expected ND's win, its hammering of the main opposition party took him by surprise. Syriza got 20.07% and 71 seats, while Pasok came in third at 11.46%. With 99.70% of the votes counted, New Democracy has 40.79% and 146 seats, five short of a majority, winning in 58 of the country's 59 constituencies. That system would have secured ND more than 170 seats Sunday. He'll now pin his hopes on a second vote - expected no later than July 2 - where the electoral system will revert to boosting the first party with a bonus of up to 50 of Parliament's 300 seats. It was a tantalizing result for the center-right leader: although Mitsotakis slightly expanded his New Democracy party's standing, got double the votes of leftwing Syriza and nearly four times those of third-place Socialist Pasok, the one-off electoral law in place Sunday denied him a governing majority. Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Romania, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece faces new national elections as early as June 25, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirming Monday he would not try to build a coalition government - despite having dominated the ballot hours earlier by the most decisive margin in half a century. ![]()
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