Greek conservatives hammer leftists in pivotal European election: 'Political earthquake'

Greece's incumbent conservative New Democracy Party shattered expectation's in the country's elections over the weekend, paving the way for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to form a majority government in the next round of elections.

The ruling New Democracy Party collected the most votes in Sunday's elections, coming in at 40.8%, according to numbers compiled by Reuters. The conservative party's results were well ahead of its primary rival Syriza, a leftist party that maintained control of the government from 2015 to 2019 but only collected 20.1% of the vote Sunday. ---More...