Political history of Greece

Exit polls in Greece's parliamentary elections show Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative party is in the lead but is unlikely to win enough seats in parliament to form a government outright.

Having secured their core party audience during the campaign period, party leaders are now openly addressing the voters or potential voters of the other parties, seeking to win them over.

Party leaders have been hosting their traditional meal for political reporters ahead of Sunday's election.

Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis gathered with journalists at a café on Ermou Street, in central Athens, where much of the conversation was said to have focused on Olympiakos' participation in the Euroleague final on Sunday.

The citizens will decide the fate of the country for the next four years, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, in his last interview ahead of Sunday's general election.

Someone once said that "if you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else." That's where SYRIZA finds itself right now, mired between governments of winners, losers, "special purpose" and anything else that may crop up by July.

As Greeks prepare to cast their vote in general elections on Sunday, none of the likely alliances that had been discussed in previous weeks between different parties appears feasible, making a runoff that much more likely.

PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis said on Thursday he believes Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis knew about the wiretaps on his phone by the National intelligence Agency (EYP) and the efforts to infect it with the illegal spyware Predator. 

Asked at a day show on Alpha channel if he thinks Mitsotakis knew, he responded: "Definitely."

The narrative of "progressive governance" espoused by SYRIZA is constantly coming up against a brick wall put up by prospective candidate partners.

As a result the party has been constantly modifying its strategy combined with a dose of pressure on center-left PASOK.

The good news is that a public discussion has started on how much the measures and benefits being announced by the political parties if they win the elections are going to cost. That said, the discussion tends to be limited to the old question: Where will the money come from?

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appears to lay speculation of a possible post-election partnership with socialist PASOK to rest in this interview with Kathimerini, just a week before Greeks head to the polls.