Lacklustre performance in EP elections raises key questions for mainstream parties

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Elections, Far Right, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA

Political parties in Greece are digesting the results of Sunday’s European Parliament elections, with the surprise outcome giving all key players something to think about. The aftermath finds the government chastened by a sub-par performance at the polls but faced with a divided centre-left opposition, while right-wing wing parties made significant gains.

While New Democracy took first place as expected, it has emerged battered and bruised from the contest with 28.3 percent of the vote, almost 5 points lower than PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s stated target of 33. The conservative ruling party secured just 7 s...

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