Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks.
Elena Becatoros and Derek GatopoulosThank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Kyriakos Mitsotakis leader of center-right New Democracy arrives at the headquarters of the party in Athens, Greece, Sunday, June 25, 2023.
His second term as prime minister “can transform Greece at a dynamic pace of development which will increase salaries and reduce inequality, with better and free public health care, with a more effective and digital state and a strong country,” he added.
In all, eight parties were surpassing the 3% threshold to enter Parliament, including an ultra-religious party and far right party backed by a jailed former lawmaker from the Nazi-inspired, and now outlawed, Golden Dawn party. “The electoral results is obviously negative for us,” a subdued Tsipras said in a televised statement. “We have suffered a serious electoral defeat. But I believe that the electoral result is mainly negative for society and for democracy,” he added, pointing to the three small right-wing parties winning enough votes to make it into Parliament.
The strategy, so far, has worked. New Democracy routed Syriza in May, crucially winning Socialist strongholds on the island of Crete and lower-income areas surrounding Athens, some for the first time.
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