After the first round in neighboring Greece, which did not conclude on May 21, there was once again the excitement of the election. The general elections in Greece were left to the second round when the New Democracy party led by Kiryakis Mitsotakis, which missed the opportunity to come to power alone with only 5 seats, did not approach the coalition. As nearly 10 million voters went to the polls again, the first results started to come.
MİÇOTAKIS TAKES AHEAD
Research companies announced the results of the polls they conducted in front of the voting centers for Greek public and private television, with the completion of the voting process at 19.00. According to unofficial results, the vote rate of the New Democracy Party was 40.46 percent. The Radical Left Alliance (SYRIZA) took second place with 17.84 percent of the vote.
According to the preliminary results, the PASOK-KINAL alliance received 12.1 percent, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 7.56 percent, the Greek Solution Party 4.51 percent, the Victory Party 3.75 percent, and the Freedom Watch Party 3.13 percent. The Spartans Party, whose support was declared by Ilias Kasidiaris, Former Golden Dawn MP, who was not allowed to participate in the elections by the Greek judiciary, entered the parliament with a rate of 4.72 percent. According to the current results, New Democracy alone exceeded the required 151 seats to come to power.
Greece has a 3% electoral threshold.
GOVERNMENT FAILED ON MAY 21
In the general elections on May 21, New Democracy became the first party with 40.79 percent of the vote, but failed to reach the 151 seats necessary for it to come to power on its own. New Democracy was followed by SYRIZA with 20.07 percent, PASOK-KINAL with 11.46 percent, KKE with 7.23 percent and Greek Solution with 4.45 percent.
In the elections where the turnout rate was 61.1 percent, the number of parties that passed the 3 percent electoral threshold and qualified to enter the parliament was 5. In the general election on May 21, it was announced that no party could reach the rate of votes to come to power alone, and it was announced that they would go to the polls again on June 25.