Monday, September 17, 2007

Greek PM wins again!

The governing conservative party of PM Costas Karamanlis has won Greece's general election, retaining a slim majority in parliament.

George Papandreou's socialist Pasok party trailed Mr Karamanlis's New Democracy party by nearly four percentage points.

With 99% of the votes counted, New Democracy's majority has been cut to 152 seats in the 300-seat parliament.

Pasok had 38.1% of the vote giving it 102 seats and Mr Papandreou is under pressure to resign for failing to capitalise on criticism of the government's response the forest fires.

Mr Karamanlis told his supporters that the party had been given a "clear mandate" to continue reforms.

"I feel doubly responsible to be more effective and avoid mistakes," he said. from bbcnews.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

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