Greece’s general election: centre-right party far ahead as votes are counted

Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party on 41% share against Syriza on 20%, with more than 70% of votes counted

Greece’s general election has failed to produce a winner despite the centre-right party of incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis clinching 41% of the vote with more than 70% of ballots counted.

New Democracy was leading with a 20-point margin over the leftist main opposition Syriza party trailing at just over 20.07% – a difference rarely seen since the collapse in 1974 of military rule. Even in Crete, a socialist bastion, the rightwing party had fared unexpectedly well.

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