Greece will celebrate its next general elections on May 21announced on Tuesday the Hellenic prime minister, the conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
In a live televised meeting of the Council of Ministers, Mitsotakis called these elections to elect new parliament and governmentand thus confirmed its advance in a month, since the current legislature ends in June.
According to the most recent polls, the conservative party new democracy of Mitsotakis leads the vote intention of the electorate with a 30%followed by the main opposition force, the leftist syrizawhich would get a 26%and the social democrat Pasok-Kinal (10%).
Despite the fact that the polls do not predict the minimum percentage of the Four. Five% necessary to obtain an absolute parliamentary majority, Mitsotakis stressed that he hopes that his party does achieve it, and made it clear that if it is not possible to form a new government after the vote in May, the Greeks will be called to the polls by second time “in early July.
The May elections will be held with a new proportional electoral system that removes the bonus of 50 seats to the first partywith which Mitsotakis obtained an absolute parliamentary majority in the July 2019 elections.
However, if a second vote is necessary in July, this time it will be with a system in which the first party could access a bonus of up to 50 seats, depending on the percentage of ballots obtained.
During his speech before the cabinet, the Prime Minister reviewed his four years at the head of the country, stating that his Executive knew how to effectively manage multiple crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy crisis and Turkey’s “provocations”.
Despite these challenges, “we fulfilled all our pre-electoral promises,” said Mitsotakis, while, after referring to the rail accident that on February 28th caused the death of 57 people in central Greece, he vowed to fight to eliminate the chronic shortcomings of the Greek state if he is re-elected as head of government.
(With information from EFE)
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