World News / 23 May 2023
My big fat Greek election
Greece held national elections on Sunday, and yesterday the results showed the centre-right New Democracy party with a dominant lead. New Democracy has been in power for the past 4 years, led by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and it seems like the Harvard graduate/former McKinsey consultant’s heading in the right direction with 41% of the vote. The next-closest party is the centre-left’s Syriza, which polled at a distant 20%. Because of the way the Greek electoral system is structured, Mitsotakis will be offered the chance to form a ruling commission, but reports say he’ll reject the offer and take Greece to a 2nd election in June, where he’ll try to win outright control of the parliament. The key election issue was the cost of living pressures that are going nowhere between now and the next poll…
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