Greek elections: Mitsotakis's conservatives heading for clear majority
Greek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on course to win a second term as prime minister and a majority in parliament, latest results show, BBC reports.
He beat centre-left rival Syriza in May, but called new elections in a bid to win enough seats to govern alone. His New Democracy party polled 40.4%, 20 points ahead of Syriza, with three-quarters of the vote counted. The vote came 11 days after a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which 500 people are thought to have died.
Although three days of mourning were held, the disaster had little effect on the campaign and Greeks voted to maintain economic stability.
Under Greek election rules for a second election, the conservatives are awarded a bonus number of seats in parliament, but the exact number depends on the final result.
Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party was unable to narrow the margin of last month's defeat.
But there was success for the newly created far-right Spartans party, which was set to pass the 3% vote-share threshold to enter parliament.
The Spartans only emerged as a political force this month when the Greek Supreme Court banned another far-right party, the Greeks, and its jailed founder threw his weight behind them.
