Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he will not try to form coalition after his party fell five seats short of majority
Riding high on an election victory few expected, Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has said he will push for a repeat poll “as soon as possible” after a landslide win for his party that left if short of a parliamentary majority under a new voting system.
Hours after his centre-right New Democracy party clinched almost 41% of the vote – 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the leftwing Syriza – Mitsotakis said on Monday he would not waste time trying to form a coalition government.
