Greece’s conservative New Democracy party was on course for a crushing victory in a national election on Sunday, official results showed, APA reports citing Reuters.
New Democracy had a lead of 40.8% of the vote based on 80% of the votes counted versus 20.1% for the leftist Syriza party.
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Following are the official results released by the Interior Ministry.
PARTIES
VOTES%
ND
40.8
SYRIZA
20.1
PASOK
11.7
KKE
7.1
EL
4.5
Other parties
15.8
Source: Interior Ministry data, with 80.4% of votes counted
ND: Conservative New Democracy party, leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Syriza: Leftist coalition party, leader Alexis Tsipras
PASOK: Socialist party, leader Nikos Androulakis
KKE: Communist party, leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas
EL: Right-wing Elliniki Lysi (Hellenic Solution), leader Kyriakos Velopoulos
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency