Members of an electoral commission sort ballots into stacks before counting them after the end of voting at a polling station in Hellenikon, a southern suburb of Athens May 18, 2014. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's main opposition party Syriza declared a victory for its anti-austerity message on Monday after its candidates fared strongly in big local election races in Athens and the surrounding region.
In what may have been a foretaste of the upcoming European Parliament vote, a candidate for the radical leftist party got most votes on Sunday in the race to govern the wider Athens region and another made the runoff for Athens mayor, knocking out Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's mayoral candidate.
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