(25 Jun 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens - 25 June 2023
1. Wide of polling station
2. Close-up of election official stamping and signing an envelope
3. Voter takes ballots and enters voting booth
4. Close-up of ballots in ballot box
5. Voter exits voting booth and casting ballot
6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Nikolaos Markopoulos, businessman, on his hope for this election:
“That the landscape clears up so that we have a stable government because the country needs it.”
7. Various of voters looking for their names on voting lists to find their polling station
8. Various of voters coming up stairs
9. People waiting outside polling station
10. Woman casting ballot
11. Close-up of dog in woman’s arms
12. Various of woman with dog voting
13. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, businessman:
“My expectation is that a strong government will be elected and will be able to govern, that it will be able to provide solutions to problems and that Greek people will prosper.”
14. Various of election officials preparing ballots for voters
15. Various of voters casting ballots
16. Close-up of ballot box
17. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Eva Sidera, Syriza election observer:
“I expect a better result for Syriza and I’m sure the people will give this result.”
18. Various of voters casting ballots
19. Close-up of ballots in ballot box
STORYLINE:
Voting continued in Greece on Sunday with the conservative party in power for the last four years a strong favorite to win with a wide majority in the country’s second election in less than two months.
The 55-year-old conservative leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is eyeing a second four-year term as prime minister after his New Democracy party won by a huge margin in May but fell short of gaining enough parliamentary seats to form a government.
With a new electoral law now favoring the winning party with bonus seats, he is hoping to win enough seats to form a strong majority in the 300-member parliament.
His main rival is Alexis Tsipras, the 48-year-old head of the left-wing Syriza party who served as prime minister in 2015-2019, during some of the most turbulent years of Greece’s nearly decade-long financial crisis.
Tsipras fared dismally in the May elections, coming a distant second with a 20 percentage point gap from New Democracy.
He has been trying to rally his voter base, a task complicated by splinter parties formed by some of his former associates.
Sunday’s vote comes just over a week after hundreds of migrants died and went missing in southern Greece when an over-crowded fishing trawler capsized and sank, drawing criticism over how Greek authorities handled the rescue.
But the disaster, one of the worst in the Mediterranean in recent years, did little to dent Mitsotakis’ 20-point lead in opinion polls over Tsipras, with Greeks mainly focused on economic issues.
As Greece gradually recovers from its brutal, financial crisis, voters appear happy to return to power a prime minister who delivered economic growth and lowered unemployment.
AP Video by Srdjan Nedeljkovic
Production by Theodora Tongas
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