"We have more experience and greater momentum," he told supporters in Thessaloniki on Wednesday. "This is why I insist that a (robust) New Democracy is the only road ultimately leading to a strong Greece." Mitsotakis' New Democracy party in May cruised to victory with a score of 40.79 percent, more than 20 points ahead of his nearest rival, former leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras. But he fell short of a workable parliamentary majority owing to the last election's proportional representation rules, and declined to form a coalition government. This election is being held under new rules that give the winner up to 50 bonus seats in parliament, facilitating the formation of a single-party government. (ANSA-AFP).
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