Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his center-right New Democracy party scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, securing 158 seats in the country’s 300-seat parliament and granting him a second four-year term as prime minister.
The “safe majority,” as Mitsotakis put it in his first address following the election, would allow him to “transform Greece at a dynamic pace of development” with “major reforms.” He added, “In a resounding and mature way, they put a definitive end to a traumatic cycle of toxicity that had held the country back and divided society.
” Sunday’s election was the second held in as many months; while the May election handed a victory to New Democracy, the party fell short of the votes needed to establish an absolute majority in Parliament. Rather than seek to form a coalition government, Mitsotakis decided to seek a stronger majority with a second election, according to the Associated Press. New Democracy collected roughly 40.
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