Greeks head to polls, no party seen winning clear majority


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  • Friday, 19 May 2023

FILE PHOTO: Supporters of leftist Syriza party wave flags during the speech of leftist Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras in a pre-election rally in Athens, Greece, May 18, 2023. REUTERS/Louiza Vradi

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece heads for what is likely to be an inconclusive parliamentary election on Sunday, paving the way for wrangling between parties to forge a ruling coalition in a deeply divided political landscape.

Opinion polls show Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative New Democracy ahead of Alexis Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party, which ruled Greece in 2015-2019 at the peak of its debt crisis.

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