Greece’s conservative New Democracy party wins landslide election victory for second 4-year term

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks. Near complete results Sunday show him gaining a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term. Jubilant supporters have gathered outside party headquarters in Athens, cheering, clapping, setting off fireworks and waving blue and white party flags. Near complete results show his party has won 40.5% of the vote, crushing his main rival, the left-wing Syriza party which was struggling to reach 18%.