Greece is set to hold a general election on Sunday.
The election will be conducted under a proportional representation system, meaning that political parties will be allocated seats in parliament that are proportionate to their share of total votes cast in the election.
- The proportional representation electoral system makes it a near certainty that a coalition government will need to be assembled after the election.
- A follow-up election that would distribute bonus seats in the 300-person parliament is expected to take place in July.
- Greece has been governed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his center-right New Democracy party since 2019.
- New Democracy holds a six-point lead over the left-wing SYRIZA party, which governed Greece between 2015 and 2019 and has been the main opposition party since then.