A woman votes in Sunday's Greek parliamentary election. Petros Giannakouris / AP
Conservative leadership – tough talks await in Greece
The polling station surveys show that incumbent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his conservative New Democracy seem to be the biggest in the Greek election, AP writes.
The survey shows that New Democracy wins between 121 and 125 seats in the parliament, which has a total of 300 seats. The biggest challenger is the left-wing party Syriza, which looks set to get between 86 and 89 seats in parliament.
The result means that Mitsotakis does not get his own majority and he had difficulty finding parties to cooperate with before the election.
The Social Democrats in Pasok, with ten percent of the votes, look like they could become important in the upcoming talks. If the coalition talks break down, a new vote is expected around the turn of June/July.
Residents of Athens vote. Thanassis Stavrakis / AP
Greece goes to the polls – migration a critical issue
At 6 a.m. Swedish time, the polling stations in Greece opened. Left-wing candidate Alexis Tsipras is challenging incumbent conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis to run a country with a tailwind. The economy is good, unemployment and inflation are falling, and growth this year is expected to be twice as high as the rest of the EU, writes AFP.
A central issue is migration. Mitsotaki's election promise is to expand the fence against Turkey so that it covers the entire nearly 20-mile-long border by 2026 - and he wants the EU to pay, writes Politico. It has led to comparisons with Donald Trump and his Mexico wall.
- I don't have thick blonde hair, so I think the comparison is irrelevant, says Mitsotakis to the German Bild.
Mitsotaki's party leads in opinion polls with 31 to 38 percent of support, and Tsipras' party is a few percentage points behind. If no coalition can be formed, new elections are expected in July, writes Reuters.
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