ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his conservative party unleashed a 'political earthquake' with a thumping win at Sunday's (May 21) election, as he hinted that he would seek a new ballot to obtain an absolute majority enabling it to govern alone. With just over 82 per cent of the ballo
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his conservative party unleashed a"political earthquake" with a thumping win at Sunday's election, as he hinted that he would seek a new ballot to obtain an absolute majority enabling it to govern alone.
"Today's political earthquake calls on all of us to speed up the process for a definitive government solution," he added.The next battle, he said, will be"critical and final".Mitsotakis, a Harvard graduate and former McKinsey consultant, had entered into the elections as the favourite, with Greece currently enjoying fairly robust economic health.
Yet the fear that wages are not keeping pace with rising costs remains a key concern for voters -- something his rival Tsipras sought to exploit. Another casualty Sunday was Tsipras' former maverick finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, whose anti-austerity MeRA25 party failed to make it to parliament. While it sparked an uproar, the spying saga did not seem to have had much of an impact on the conservatives' results, which were far better than the 6-8 percent lead predicted by pollsters in the run-up to the election.
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