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‘An even bigger margin’: Mitsotakis set to win majority in Greek election

Centre-right New Democracy party appears to be heading for landslide victory in Sunday’s repeat poll

The Guardian - UK

Greek elections a one-horse race after conservatives topple left-wing strongholds

Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin

The Independent UK

Greece: No more survivors found after 79 drown, hundreds feared missing in migrant boat tragedy

Greece’s caretaker prime minister declares three days of national mourning

Evening Standard

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Greeks welcome continuity in Erdogan’s re-election in Turkey

Erdogan’s rhetoric may be unfriendly towards Greece, but his predecessors were outright dangerous, many Greeks say.

Al Jazeera

Greek conservative leader gets COVID weeks before elections

Greek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, just weeks before a second round of national elections, he said in a video message.

Reuters

Greece’s ‘earthquake’ of an election: a right-wing triumph

Not long ago, Greece was Europe’s “economic and political problem child”, said Alan Posener in Die Welt (Berlin). The 2010 debt crisis had led to a 25% contraction in its economy – unemployment had hit 27%; people were rioting in the streets – and as a condition of receiving the massive bailouts…

The Week

One EU policy the Tories are happy to emulate: cracking down on refugees

Greece, Bulgaria and Poland have been accused of forcibly turning away migrants – at terrible human cost, says author Daniel Trilling

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Greek caretaker Prime Minister sworn in, to head government until new national elections

Senior judge Ioannis Sarmas has been sworn in as Greece’s caretaker Prime Minister who will head the country until new national elections are held in about a month

The Independent UK

Judge sworn in as Greece's caretaker prime minister

Ioannis Sarmas, a senior judge, was sworn in as Greece's caretaker prime minister on Thursday to lead the country to a repeat election on June 25 following Sunday's inconclusive vote.

Reuters

Greek votes, drinking labels and Sparks of delight – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Greece says it's investigating claim migrants were illegally deported back to Turkey

Greece’s outgoing prime minister says he has ordered a probe into a report that authorities illegally deported back to Turkey a group of migrants, allegedly leaving them on a raft at sea for Turkish authorities to pick up

The Independent UK

Senior judge to lead Greek caretaker government until fresh June election

Ioannis Sarmas appointed to replace outgoing prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after inconclusive ballot

The Guardian - UK

Greece appoints judge as caretaker PM ahead of new elections

Senior judge Ioannis Sarmas has been named as Greece's caretaker prime minister after a general election failed to produce a new government

The Independent UK

Greece probes pushback video, says migrant policy 'tough but fair'

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greek authorities were investigating a New York Times video showing asylum seekers being forcibly ejected from Greece but reiterated denials that his government knowingly carries out so-called pushbacks.

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Greece appoints caretaker PM ahead of June repeat election

Greece's president appointed a caretaker prime minister on Wednesday to form a government that will lead the country to a repeat election on June 25, after last weekend's inconclusive vote.

Tribune News Service

Greek politicians speed-up the process to hold a new election

Greece’s leading political candidates are accelerating the process to call a new election — the second in about a month — paving the way for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to get an additional four-year term.

The Week

Illegal pushbacks and abandonment at sea: is EU facing a new migrant crisis?

EU authorities have called on Greece to conduct an independent investigation into video footage that appears to show asylum seekers being abandoned at sea.

The Independent UK

Stung by election defeat, Greek opposition forced to pass on chance to form government

Greece’s opposition leader has received and rejected an invitation to form the country’s next government

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Reuters

Greek opposition parties unable to form alliance, new election seen

Greece's two main opposition parties on Tuesday turned down mandates offered to them to form a coalition government, setting the stage for a second election in June after an inconclusive vote on May 21.

The Guardian - UK

‘Not something I’m proud of’: six Greeks explain their election choice

Economic policies seemed to swing it with voters as PM’s party finishes 20 percentage points ahead of the left opposition

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Greek election: the new hegemony

Editorial: A handsome victory for the centre-right is dismal news for those who have suffered from years of austerity

Al Jazeera

Greek conservatives clear an ‘open road’ to political supremacy

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party routed left-wing Syriza in election and is expected to do it again in a repeat vote.

Reuters

Greek vote shows public mellowing from crisis-era anger

A resounding defeat of radical parties in Greece's election on Sunday has shown voters have mellowed after more than 15 years of fuming over austerity triggered by a crippling debt crisis.

The Guardian - UK

Greek PM seeks new poll in push for absolute majority after election win

Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he will not try to form coalition after his party fell five seats short of majority

The Guardian - UK

Centre-left politics has been dealt a crushing blow in Greece. What can we learn from it?

The Syriza party did worse than most thought possible, says Marina Prentoulis, a politics professor at the University of East Anglia

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