Radical leftist Syriza set to comfortably win EU vote in Greece


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  • Monday, 26 May 2014

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's radical leftist, anti-bailout Syriza party has won the country's EU election by a margin of nearly four points over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party, the official projection showed on Sunday.

Syriza took 26.7 percent of the vote, ahead of the conservative New Democracy which took 22.8 percent, according to the official projection by the interior ministry. The projection has a margin of error of 1 percentage point.

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