Greece’s prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority

GREECE’S RULINGNDNDND ND centre-right New Democracy () party came first by an impressive and unexpected margin in an election held on May 21st; but it narrowly failed to secure an outright majority in parliament. It now looks likely that another election will be held, probably at the end of June, as the moderate socialist party, Pasok, has ruled out joining a coalition government under ’s leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mr Mitsotakis is not interested in forming a coalition at this stage either.With all the ballots now counted, took 40.8% of the vote, trouncing the radical left-wing Syriza party, which got only 20.1%, a result so bad that the future of its leader, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, is now in question. Pasok trailed in third place on 11.5%. After the exclusion of small parties that failed to make the 3% threshold for winning seats in parliament, Mr Mitsotakis only narrowly failed to secure a majority in the 300-member parliament; has ended up with 145 seats.