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Greek PM calls for new elections after winning broad but inconclusive victory

Supporters of the conservative New Democracy party wave flags and celebrate in front of its headquarters, in central Athens shortly after exit polls were announced. AFP - ARIS MESSINIS

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called for new elections "possibly on June 25", a day after his conservative New Democracy party fell short of winning an absolute majority.

Mitsotakis’s centre-right New Democracy party won 40.8 percent of the vote versus a disappointing 20 percent for centre-left Syriza led by Alexis Tsipras.

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