GREECE’S OPPOSITION WINS COUNTRY’S ELECTIONS
Panorama.am
11:12 05/10/2009
Greece’s opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement has won the
country’s snap general elections, foreign media reports.
Socialist leader George Papandreou promised to chart a new course for
an economic comeback.
According to figures, the Socialist party received 44 percent of the
vote, compared with New Democracy’s 34 percent, with 87 percent of
votes counted. The margin is the largest seen in a Greek vote in
decades.
The Socialist party will receive an estimated 160 seats in Greece’s
300-seat Parliament, officials said, compared with New Democracy’s 93
seats.