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In Greece, people went to the polls today for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives a second term in office. Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party won an election on the 21st of May, winning 146 seats, followed by the left-wing Syriza party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that ruled Greece from 2015 to 2019. But it fell just short of the outright majority of more than 150 seats needed to rule without forming a coalition. This prompted the second vote under different rules that make it easier for the winning party to secure a majority in the 300-seat parliament. Results are expected by about 10:30 PM tonight.
Today’s election is being held in the backdrop of a migrant shipwreck on the 14th of June in which hundreds of people are feared to have perished in southern Greece. One of the worst such disasters in years, it has shown the parties’ divisions over migration.