/ world immediately information/ Greece’s ruling center-right New Democracy celebration suffered bitter disappointments within the second spherical of native elections within the nation on Sunday. As reported by the Greek media, New Democracy misplaced within the three largest Greek municipalities, in addition to in 5 of the six areas the place the regional governor was elected within the second spherical.
Regardless of the convincing benefit of the rulers within the first spherical, within the second the opposition clearly managed to consolidate its votes.
Within the capital of Athens, Harris Doukas, supported by the center-left PASOK motion, gained the mayoral election with virtually 56 p.c of the vote, ANA-MPA reported. The earlier mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis of New Democracy, obtained 44 p.c. The loss in Athens is all of the extra disagreeable for the ruling celebration as a result of Bakoyannis is the nephew of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
In Thessaloniki, Stelios Angeloudis, consultant of the civic checklist “Workforce for Thessaloniki” and supported once more by PASOK, displaced the present mayor Kostas Zervas with 67.3 towards 32.7 p.c.
Within the third largest Greek metropolis, Patras, the present mayor Kostas Peletidis gained with 56.7 p.c of the vote. Peletidis is a candidate on the Individuals’s Unity checklist, which is principally supported by the Greek Communist Occasion. The candidate of the United Patras checklist, Kostas Zvolis, supported by the correct, remained with 43.3 p.c.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was quoted by Sky as saying that tonight was not significantly good for New Democracy, however that the political conclusions had already been drawn within the first spherical of the election.
In a remark, Sky tv recognized the low voter turnout as a decisive issue for the election consequence. In response to official knowledge, solely 52.5 p.c of Greek voters forged their votes.
For his or her half, the earlier mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki, Bakoyanis and Zervas, congratulated their opponents on their election victory.
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