Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis wins Greece's national elections with a clear majority, clinching a second term
The turnout rate in Sunday's elections was only 51.8 percent, down from 61.1percent in the May 21 elections. / Photo: AP
According to the results announced by the Interior Ministry on Sunday, the New Democracy party won 40.48 percent of the votes, with SYRIZA gaining 17.85 percent, down from 20.07 percent from previous elections held on May 21. Meanwhile, the far-right Spartans party, which was openly backed by imprisoned lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris of the banned neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, won over 4.72 percent of the votes and entered the parliament for the first time.
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