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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-10-23
CONTENTS
[01] Final results of local government elections released
[01] Final results of local government elections released
With all the results of Sunday's second round of local government
elections counted, the ruling New Democracy party (ND) maintained its
lead, with ND-backed candidates carrying a total of 30 prefectures
throughout the country, against 22 prefectures carried by main
opposition PASOK party and another two prefectures carried by
candidates jointly backed by PASOK and the Coalition of the Left,
Movements and Ecology (SYN).
According to the official results of the run-off elections in 7
prefectures and 247 municipalities, the ND-backed candidates carried
the prefectures of Arcadia and Chania (Crete), while PASOK-backed
candidates carried the prefectures of Cephalonia, Lefkada, Magnesia,
Serres and Karditsa.
Of the 47 prefectures decided in the preceding Sunday's first round of
elections, ND-backed candidates carried 28 prefectures, PASOK-backed
candidates carried 17 prefectures, and two prefectures were carried by
candidates backed jointly by PASOK and SYN.
In the municipal run-offs, interest was focused mainly on the cities of
Thessaloniki and Patras. In Thessaloniki, mayor Vassilis
Papageorgopoulos, backed by ND, was re-elected with 52.62 percent over
PASOK-backed Chrysa Arapoglou, who received 47.38 percent, while, in
Patras, PASOK former deputy minister Andreas Fouras was elected with
53.15 percent against 46.91 percent for ND-backed former mayor
Evangelos Floratos.
With respect to the 51 prefectural capitals -- Greece has 51
prefectures and three supra-prefectures -- ND-backed mayoral candidates
were elected in 26, PASOK-backed candidates were elected in 19,
candidates jointly backed by PASOK and SYN were elected in 4, while two
SYN-backed candidates were elected in two prefectural capitals with the
support of PASOK.
In Attica prefecture, 14 municipalities changed hands. Of the total 122
municipalities in Attica, 30 were carried by ND-backed candidates, 22
by PASOK-backed candidates, 3 by candidates jointly backed by SYN and
PASOK, 4 by SYN-backed candidates, 1 by a candidate backed by the
Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and 19 by independent candidates.
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