New Democracy has led polls in campaign held under shadow of shipwreck disaster
Greeks are going to the polls for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give the former prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s conservatives a second term in office.
Sunday’s election is being held in the shadow of a migrant shipwreck on 14 June in which hundreds of people are feared to have perished off southern Greece. One of the worst such disasters in years, it has shown the parties’ divisions over migration.
Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party won an election on 21 May, 20 points clear of the leftwing Syriza party that ruled Greece from 2015 to 2019.
