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Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters Kyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected as Prime Minister with a convincing win on Sunday as his party kept up its impressive showing in the May 21 elections by taking an estimated 40.5 pct of the vote and winning a comfortable majority of seven seats in the 300-seat Greek Parliament, according to the first official projections.
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Mitsotakis makes final push for comfortable majority as small parties hold key Kyriakos Mitsotakis has issued a final plea to New Democracy voters to participate in Sunday’s elections as a low turnout among conservatives seems the only potential obstacle standing in the way of the centre-right party returning to power for another four years.
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Opposition parties jostle for position in post-election political landscape With a New Democracy win all but assured in Sunday’s elections, the main forces of the opposition are staking out their positions with an eye on the day after on Greece’s political scene.
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Attention turns to next government as Mitsotakis holds convincing lead over rivals As New Democracy and its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, continue to dominate in all the opinion polls ahead of the June 25 elections, there is growing speculation about what kind of government he will form if the predictions prove correct and the centre-right politician returns for a second four-year term.
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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications Although opinion polls suggest that Kyriakos Mitsotakis does not have much to worry about as far as clinching a parliamentary majority on June 25 is concerned, a survey published on Tuesday indicates that as many as eight parties could elect MPs, reducing the size of New Democracy’s advantage but also suggesting that post-election politics could be more turbulent than the centre-right leader would have hoped.
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Mitsotakis bids to hold on to voters with loose allegiance to ND Kyriakos Mitsotakis is not letting up in his bid to convince Greeks to give him and his New Democracy party a clear majority in the upcoming elections and is exerting significant pressure on PASOK, which is hoping to scoop up some of the votes that went to the conservatives in the May 21 vote.
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ND doubles down on tax as leaders target weak spots on electoral map Tax remained at the top of the election agenda after social media posts by senior ND figures provoked outraged reactions from the parties of the opposition.
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Mitsotakis not taking majority for granted despite encouraging poll numbers Kyriakos Mitsotakis is keeping up the pressure on Greek voters to give him a handsome majority on June 25 by arguing that any other result is likely to lead to third elections, even though opinion polls continue to suggest that there is little danger of New Democracy not gaining more than 150 seats in Parliament.
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Tax policy propelled to top of agenda for second elections Tax policy has suddenly become a hot topic in the Greek elections, as New Democracy turns its fire on PASOK’s economic programme.
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ND raises tax concerns in bid to prevent voters moving to PASOK As a fresh election campaign gets underway, New Democracy is turning much of its fire on PASOK, hoping that it will prevent centrist voters from switching their support from the conservatives to the centre-left party for the second vote on June 25.