ATHENS: Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won Greece's national elections on Sunday (Jun 25) with a clear majority, securing a second term during which he vowed to bring about major reforms to transform the country. With nearly all the votes counted, Mitsotakis's New Democracy party obtained a score
ATHENS: Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won Greece's national elections on Sunday with a clear majority, securing a second term during which he vowed to bring about major reforms to transform the country.
"The people have given us a safe majority. Major reforms will proceed rapidly," Mitsotakis said, adding that he had"ambitious" targets for a new term that could"transform" Greece. The election also saw voters turn away from two key protagonists during the debt years, with former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's radical-left MeRA25 party failing to make it past the three per cent threshold to get into parliament, while Tsipras's party scored even less than in May, losing a further 275,000 votes."We have sustained a serious political defeat," Tsipras said in an address following his fifth loss to Mitsotakis, and his third in a national election.
With the strong swing to the right - including the return of the far right after a four-year hiatus - Varoufakis said his left-wing party would be sorely missed in parliament. Voter fatigue was also evident after a second election in a month, with the turnout at under 53 per cent compared to over 61 per cent in May.Mitsotakis first became prime minister in 2019, beating his predecessor Tsipras on a vow to move on from a decade of economic crisis.
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