Mitsotakis raises bar for EP vote success as fringe parties and abstention hold key to result

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Far Right, Justice, Migration, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA
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With New Democracy dominating the polls just under three weeks to go to EP elections, leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis appears confident that the party can exceed expectations set earlier in the campaign. The degree of voter abstention and the ability of smaller parties to beat the election threshold are now seen as holding the key to the allocation of seats.

Less than three weeks ahead of election day on June 9, polls show the governing New Democracy party is on track to equal its performance in 2019 with 33 percent of the vote, easily beating rivals SYRIZA. This was the yardstick set by PM Kyriakos Mitsota...

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