In Greece, new parliamentary elections may be held as early as the end of June, since the ruling party, although it won the elections on May 21, did not win enough seats in the parliament to fulfill its promise to govern independently.
Reuters writes about it.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party won 40.8% of the vote on Sunday to 20.1% for the leftist SYRIZA, a landslide victory that shows the conservatives are not joining forces with any other party.
It was a stunning success for Mitsotakis, whose administration has had to deal with a wiretapping scandal, the COVID pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis and a deadly train crash in February that sparked public outrage.
The prime minister said he was committed to a second vote, which would be held under a semi-proportional electoral system with a sliding scale of seat bonuses, increasing his party's chances of an outright victory.
"The dynamics of the result were more than clear: citizens want a strong government with a four-year mandate, (to carry out) bolder reforms," Mitsotakis said.
On Monday, President Kateryna Sakellaropoulou handed Mitsotakis his three-day mandate to form a government. If the attempt is unsuccessful, after that the SYRIZA party and the socialist PASOK will have a three-day mandate in turn. None of the parties has enough votes to independently form a government, so new elections look likely.
