Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou approved on Saturday Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ request to dissolve parliament on April 23 and hold elections on May 21.
How informs Ekathimerini, Mitsotakis announced the election date during a cabinet meeting at the end of March, months before the official end of his term in July. On Saturday, he met with the president to announce the dissolution of parliament. Ekaterina Sakellaropoulou noted:
“I hope that we will have a calm and fruitful pre-election period for the good of the country.”
Thus starts a four-week “marathon” of the political campaign. Elections will pass by proportional voting, and opinion polls show that neither Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party nor the main left-wing opposition party, SYRIZA, will receive the votes needed for an absolute parliamentary majority.
In the event that the elected parties fail to form a coalition government, a second vote will be held in early July.
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