Greece’s ruling centre-right New Democracy (ND) party came first by an impressive margin in an election held on May 21st; but it failed to secure an outright majority in parliament
centre-right New Democracy party came first by an impressive and unexpected margin in an election held on May 21st; but it narrowly failed to secure an outright majority in parliament. It now looks likely that another election will be held, probably at the end of June, as the moderate socialist party, Pasok, has ruled out joining a coalition government under’s leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mr Mitsotakis is not interested in forming a coalition at this stage either.took 40.
Two small parties, the hard-right Hellenic Solution and the Communist Party of Greece, also won the minimum 3% of the vote needed to take seats in parliament. But Mera25, the radical left-wing party of Yanis Varoufakis, Syriza’s former finance minister, fell below the threshold. Analysts have ruled out the possibility of a former premier, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Syriza, forming a coalition government with Pasok ifalso falls short of a majority in July . “It’s more likely if the gap is tight that New Democracy could persuade a handful of socialist personalities to defect and make up the numbers,” one pollster said.
Syriza’s unexpectedly poor showing suggested it had failed to rally most of the 400,000 new voters aged between 16 and 21, contrary to pollsters’ forecasts. In recent elections the under-24 age group has mostly backed left-wing parties; with youth unemployment estimated to be higher than 25%, new voters are fearful about their job prospects.
The young were especially angry about a disastrous train accident in February, blamed on negligence by rail employees and outdated signalling systems, in which more than 50 people, mostly students, died. “It’s sad we are still so far behind Europe on basic management practices,” said Charalambos, an 18-year-old economics student.’s appeal to older voters is still strong. Conservative candidates campaigned on the government’s solid record of restoring economic stability.
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