Conservatives Won the Greek Parliamentary Elections

The ruling conservative party has won the Greek parliamentary elections today, gaining an absolute majority to be able to govern without having to form a coalition with any other party. As I had posted, the center-right won the parliamentary elections in May, falling around 10% of the vote shy of an absolute majority, but the Prime Minister opted not to seek a mandate from the President to form a government so that the Head of State would have to call for a new round of elections under Greece’s election laws, taking the chance that the Premier’s ruling conservatives would obtain the majority in today’s second vote. Unlike in the recent elections in Finland won by the Finnish conservatives with only a plurality that forced them to have to enter into a coalition government with a far right party, the Greek conservatives’ triumph over the left was great enough also to keep a new far-right party which gained seats in the Parliament out of the executive government of the Hellenic Republic. Greece is an ally of the United States as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in the War on Terrorism.