The Greek PM's party wins the election



 Elections in Greece: Mitsotakis, a center-right candidate, celebrates a significant victory but seeks a majority

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the conservative prime minister of Greece, has won national elections, and he has called the big victory for his party a "political earthquake". His middle right New Majority Rule government party was setting out toward practically 41% of the vote, five seats shy of a larger part.

His middle left rival Alexis Tsipras praised him, with his Syriza party set for an unfortunate consequence of 20%. Mr. Mitsotakis said the outcome showed that Greeks hosted given his get-together an order for a four-year government.

In a victory speech, he stated, "The people wanted the choice of a Greece run by a majority government and by New Democracy without the help of others."

An unexpected scale of New Democracy's victory was revealed in an exit poll hours earlier to the delight of party supporters in Athens. Pre-election polls had clearly underestimated the 20-point gap between the two main parties, as evidenced by the results.

Mr. Mitsotakis' party won 146 seats, five seats shy of the 151 expected for a larger part. All but one of Greece's electoral districts were colored blue for New Democracy, according to a vote map prepared by the interior ministry.

The remarks made by the prime minister were interpreted as an indication that he would not seek to share power with another party but would instead contest a second election at the end of June when the winning party will receive bonus seats.

He will be offered a mandate to form a coalition by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, which he is likely to decline. She will then, at that point, pass it to the following two gatherings, and assuming that bombs she will organize a guardian government until new decisions.

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, described his party's performance as "extremely negative" as a huge setback. He opposed the austerity of international bailouts when he ran for office in 2015, but he eventually gave in to creditors' demands.

Greece's growth was close to 6% last year, and the center-right party has been in charge for the past four years. The nation was told by Mr. Mitsotakis that only he could lead the Greek economy forward and maintain its recent growth. Greeks seem to have answered decidedly - more than anticipated.

Giorgos Adamopoulos, 47, decided in favor of the New Majority rules government a couple hundred meters from the Acropolis in Athens. Greece deserved better politics, but he supported Mr. Mitsotakis because he was impressed with his track record after four years as prime minister.

Four years ago, achieving a majority in Greece's 300-member parliament with 41% of the vote would have been sufficient.

Presently it requires over 45%, on the grounds that the triumphant party is not generally qualified for a 50-seat reward in the primary round, making a re-run more probable.

Mr Mitsotakis will have his eye on the additional seats he would be qualified for assuming he won the subsequent political decision. He would be in charge for four years with a cabinet of his choosing if there was an absolute majority.

Pasok, Syriza's socialist rival and one of the election's big winners with 11.5% of the vote, would be a potential partner if he were to seek coalition talks.

However, that would demonstrate interesting as Pasok pioneer Nikos Androulakis was the objective of a wiretap embarrassment last year. It resulted in the resignations of the head of Greek intelligence and a nephew of Mr. Mitsotakis who was serving as the prime minister's chief of staff. According to Mr. Androulakis, the prime minister was aware that he was one of dozens of people who were the targets of illegal spyware.

Mr. Mitsotakis is a member of one of the most influential political dynasties in Greece.

In the early 1990s, his father Konstantinos Mitsotakis served as prime minister. His brother Kostas Bakoyannis is the current mayor of Athens, and his sister Dora Bakoyannis served as the foreign minister.

In the end, there was no clear correlation between the outcome of the February rail accident and the election campaign.

The disaster resulted in the deaths of 57 people, many of whom were students. The tragedy was portrayed by opposition parties as a sign of a dysfunctional state reduced to its bare essentials following years of economic crisis and underinvestment.

Greeks can vote from the age of 17 on, and Greek TV's initial analysis of the voting showed that 31.5 percent of those aged 17 to 24 supported ND, almost three points more than Syriza.

First-time electors Chrysanthi and Vaggelis, both 18, decided in favor of Syriza in light of the fact that their age needed "a novel, new thing, something else".

The communist KKE party increased its vote share in addition to Pasok.

However, Yannis Varoufakis, an ex-Syriza finance minister whose MeRA25 party failed to qualify for parliament, was another casualty.