in greece, prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis has one a second four-year term, defeating his main rival by a huge margin. with almost all of the votes counted, his ruling new democracy party got more than 40% of the votes, while leftist syriza hold just about 17%. for more, we want to go to linda, joining us live from athens, in greece. good to see you. prime minister mitsotakis has one a second four-year term with his resounding victory. what challenges lie ahead for the prime minister, and how did he win this? reporter: the prime minister is now no longer a newcomer like four years ago. he is now seen as somebody with
election. that was a clear message by the former government, that is now a new government in greece. and there is a clear defeat of the main opposition party syriza, that is going through a period of soul searching right now, trying to piece itself together again, and we ll see how those developments will unfold, other developments have to do with the fact that the right, or right to centre parties are now at a historic high, when it comes to their representation in parliament, in the greek parliament. and we can also mentioned that there is tremendous fragmentation when it comes to the left of centre of the political spectrum, where we have
she started by digging what could be the most likely scenario in parliament. the centre right new democracy party is leading with 40.5% of the vote and is projected to win enough parliamentary seats to form a government according to these official results. so the party needs at least a 151 seats in a 300 seat parliament. now they re projected to win 157 seats. so this is the prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, who was the prime minister since 2019 and until the last inconclusive elections. he had promised to boost the revenue from tourism, the tourism industry, and to create newjobs and increase the salaries and the wages to an average that is closer to the european union.
answering calls now. the boy s mother is really worried and so is the father. the boy is only 15. for many of the families, their struggle ends here. the only hope they have left is to submit their dna to the greek authorities. if the dna is matched with the bodies recovered, they may get some closure. otherwise, their struggles continue. the greek authorities have ended the search operation and little hope is left for the recovery of further bodies. but the survivors testimonies continue to cast doubt on the version of events presented by greek authorities. and there s now calls for an independent inquiry. khalid karamat, bbc news, athens. greece s conservative leader kyriakos mitsotakis has claimed victory in the country s second election in five weeks. the vote was called after his party narrowly failed to secure an outright majority last month. with almost 25% of the votes counted, mr mitsotakis new democracy party is leading with 40.5%, versus 17.9% for the syriza party of alexi
irresponsible they are, which of course they are as well. so the debate was between the level of intensity of the rescue, which syriza tried to put in, and the responsibilities of the greek coastguard and so forth, versus a framing that has more to do with the problems being both at the european level more rather than the greek government level, and the problems about the traffickers of these immigrants and how inhumane they are, so clearly the latter framing one outcome in a way, if we consider the elections capturing some of that debate. again, we cannot tell because there are so many other issues that people were voting on, but that is kind of how things played out. but that is kind of how things played out- but that is kind of how things -la edout. ., , . but that is kind of how things -la edout. . , . ., played out. thank you very much for our played out. thank you very much for your analysis- rishi sunak has urged people to hold their nerve over rising interest rates in the uk