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Ruling SYRIZA candidates convincingly defeated in all major municipal races; Attica goes to ND
New Democracy-backed Costas Bakoyannis handily defeated ruling SYRIZA party's candidate, Nasos Iliopoulos, in the Athens mayoral race during the second round of local government elections across the country on Sunday, polling 65.2 percent to the latter's 34.75 percent, and with nearly 99 percent of the vote counted.
ND wins 11 out of 13 regions across Greece in local elections
Candidates supported by opposition party New Democracy (ND) have established a clear lead in six of the seven regions in the second Sunday of local elections, according to the initial official results released by the Interior Ministry.
New Democracy: We need to break the ‘triangle of stagnation’
Despite showering voters with old-fashioned, last-minute, clientelistic handouts, and having run a deeply divisive and aggressive campaign Syriza was resoundingly defeated at the polls, with Nea Demokratia registering the largest lead of any political party at any EU parliamentary election in Greece’s history. Voters demanded political change. Greece is on track to become the EU’s first post-populism country.