Backgrounder: Greek Elections

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, cc European People's Party, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A23A8701_(43572169160).jpg

Summary

The center-right New Democracy (ND) party has secured a landslide victory in Greek elections, receiving approximately 40% of the vote to the ruling Syriza’s 31.5%, according to preliminary results.

ND is portraying the victory as the end of a contentious era in Greek politics, one that saw the country teetering on the brink financial collapse, amid massive bailouts and the threat of a ‘Grexit.’ But newly minted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may soon discover that all of the financial and political constraints that stymied his predecessor won’t be disappearing anytime soon.

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