Greek elections: despite scandals, Mitsotakis looks set to win

Tomorrow, Greeks go to the polls. Voters will choose between 36 parties. Opinion polls predict that the ruling conservative New Democracy (ND) is likely to win. The left-wing Syriza party, which has already led the country for one and only one term between 2015 and 2019, is breathing down its neck. It does not look as if any of the winners will be able to form a coalition on their own. “On Sunday night we will be the winners. We will continue on the path of recovery of the country that we started four years ago,” the current 55-year-old Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced at one of the pre-election rallies this week. Polls show that six political parties can hope to win seats in the 300-seat parliament: in addition to New Democracy and Syriza, the socialist Pasok, the Communist Party of Greece, the radically patriotic Greek Salvation and the progressive leftists Mera25. The other parties, which need to win three percent of the vote to enter parliament, are unlikely to do so. The novelty of these elections is that the winning party will not get an extra 50 seats, as has been the custom so far. The winning party will therefore have to seek support from smaller parties. <a href="https://lihtenvalner.medium.com/greek-elections-despite-scandals-micotakis-looks-set-to-win-28761a0644b0">Visit Now</a>