Mitsotakis wins big, will seek outright majority in second election

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose conservative party won a landslide election victory Sunday but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government, indicated he will seek a second election hoping to consolidate his victory without the need for a coalition partner.

Mitsotakis' New Democracy party was a full 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, with over 90% of the votes counted, a margin of victory not seen since 1974. But due to the current electoral system of proportional representation, his 40% vote share was still not enough to secure a majority of the 300 seats in parliament, meaning he would either have to seek a coalition partner from a smaller party, or head to a second election.

"From tomorrow, I will follow all constitutional procedures, but maintaining my firm view that the mathematics of proportional...