The right-wing party of former prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is leading Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Greece, according to exit polls that should give him an absolute majority, AFP reports.

New Democracy (ND), in power from 2019 until the end of May, would have won between 40% and 44% of the vote over Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza party, which would have won between 16.1% and 19.1% of the vote. .. , the score is even lower than in the previous elections on May 21, according to exit poll data published by TV channels after the polls closed.

About 9.8 million Greeks with the right to vote are expected to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament.

Pre-election polls showed a clear victory for the conservative New Democracy (Nea Dimokratia, ND) party led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while some agencies predicted it could win more than 40% of the vote.

The formation of a Mitsotakis-led government is almost certain thanks to Greece’s electoral system, in which the strongest party wins at least 20 seats in the 300-seat parliament.