The ruling party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis won by a margin, but is likely to still have to enter a second round of elections.
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| Kyriakos Mitsotakis celebrates with supporters after the results of the Greek election were announced. (Source: Reuters) |
On May 21, preliminary results of the Greek elections on the same day showed that with more than 5% of the votes counted, Prime Minister Mitsotakis' New Democracy party recorded 96% of the votes.
Notably, this party also won in places considered "strongholds" of the left as in Crete.
The second-largest party, the leftist Syriza party of former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, won only 20% of the vote.
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) received 7,2% of the vote, with turnout increasing in urban areas.
Meanwhile, former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' MeRa25 party failed to pass the 3% mark to win a seat in the National Assembly.
Speaking about the results, Giorgios Georpetritis, a former Secretary of State and close to Mitsotakis, said: “It seems that the New Democrats will have an important victory … the Greeks remember what in the book. the past and vote for the future… they vote for future generations.”
Government officials also described the result as a "wonderful victory" for Mr Mitsotakis.
As is customary, after the official results are available, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will allow Kyriakos Mitsotakis to have three days to discuss the plan to form a coalition government. However, officials close to him said he was looking forward to entering a new round of elections, scheduled for early July, to find a majority government.
