Posted on 05/22/2023 6:35:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose conservative party scored a landslide election victory Sunday but without the seats in Parliament to win outright, indicated he will seek a second election in a bid to consolidate victory without a coalition partner.
Mitsotakis´ New Democracy party was a full 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, nearly complete results showed. But a new electoral system of proportional representation meant his 40% vote share still was not enough to secure a majority of the 300 seats in Parliament. To form a government, he would either have to seek a coalition partner from a smaller party, or head to a second election.
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If he is a remotely real conservative and tries to get Greek social spending under control, there will be riots and his government will fall fairly quickly.
The Greeks deserve better than the kind of thing that Germany, Italy and the EU have. Get out of the EU, Greeks are too independent to be in a fascist-lite organization like that.
OPA!
I meant France not Italy.
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