The voting of Greeks abroad for the parliamentary elections has been completed. So far the Ministry of the Interior has an image of their participation in the polls until midnight on Saturday (Greece time) for all countries where electoral divisions were set up except the USA and Canada, as due to a large time difference the electoral process there was ongoing until the morning hours.

In particular, out of 20,970 registered, 16,827 voted and 4,143 abstained. That is, the participation rate (excluding USA - Canada) was 80.2%.

In Great Britain

Of the approximately 170,000 Greeks who live permanently in the United Kingdom, they finally managed to register 4,876 people on the special electoral rolls. This is the majority of Greeks abroad, not only in percentage but also in absolute number, who declared that they want to vote in their place of residence.

The vast majority of them are people up to 45 years old. Many of them settled in Britain in the last decade, while many voted for the first time in their lives.

As the Greek ambassador in London, Mr. Ioannis Tsaoussis, pointed out, "the voting was conducted smoothly and without any problems at all in all 12 electoral divisions created in the United Kingdom."

In Cyprus

With a participation rate that exceeded 90% for the Greeks of Cyprus, the voting for the elections of May 21 was completed.

Voters came to the five polling stations set up in Nicosia, Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos, from 07:00 to 19:00.

Out of a total of 1,462 registered in the special electoral rolls, 1,340 voted, a percentage corresponding to 91.6%.

More specifically, in the first electoral division of Nicosia, 397 out of a total of 438 voters voted. In the second electoral division of Nicosia, 438 out of 474 voted for them.

In Limassol, out of a total of 255 registered, 227 voted. While in Larnaca, out of a total of 212, 198 voted.

Finally, in Paphos, 80 of the 83 registered voted for the Greek elections.

The elections in Greece dominated the attention of international media. Since morning, international networks have been transmiting all developments from the electoral process. From the first moment when the ballot boxes were opened to voters, the largest global networks of have been broadcasting, all developments from Greece and the electoral process.

"We have the prospect of the election being inconclusive and maybe having another vote later in the summer. Anyone sleeping around here was probably woken up by the church bells and that will bring more people to vote at this school during the day," the BBC reported.

Reuters, which had cameras in various polling stations, broadcast live the vote of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras.

Al Jazeera, in its online version, prepared a live broadcast on Greek election day. This means that it uploads the developments from Greece minute by minute.

"Politico" has the election as its first topic. The "Politico" site analyzes in every detail the factors that will determine the outcome of today's elections and lists the scenarios for the next day.

According to the information provided by the Ministry of the Interior, 31.52% of those registered in 16,520 polling stations have voted so far in the elections.

"We decided to give the second announcement once and for all, where approximately 80% of the electoral divisions participate in it," said the Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Michalis Stavrianoudakis.

Elections 2023: What time will the exit poll come out?

At 19.00 in the afternoon, the first, joint big exit poll is expected to be published on the Greek private television networks. Polling companies will attempt to measure the ranking and percentages the parties have received.

The first official assessment of the election result is expected earlier than any other time. According to SingularLogic within just 90 minutes from the moment the polls close, at 20:30 we will have the first estimate.

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