Greeks go to the polls on Sunday for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservatives looking set to win and put him back in office.
on June 14 in which hundreds of people are feared to have perished off southern Greece. One of the worst such disasters in years, it has shown the parties' divisions over migration.
But it fell just short of the outright majority needed to rule without forming a coalition, prompting the second vote underthat make it easier for the winning party to secure a majority in the 300-seat parliament. Opinion polls in recent days have shown New Democracy with more than 40% percent of the vote, with Syriza headed by Alexis Tsipras trailing at about 20%.
The shipwreck disaster sidelined other issues in the run-up to the election, including a cost of living crisis, and aRescuers found 104 survivors but up to 750 people were thought to have been packed on the ramshackle vessel that had sailed from Libya and was heading to Italy. The boat had been shadowed by the Greek coast guard before it sank: the coast guard has said that the occupants refused all offers of help.
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