Parties setting out electoral goals

With elections around the corner, Greece's political parties are tailoring their strategies on the basis that the outcome of the first ballot, which will adhere to the simple proportional representation, will have a catalytic effect on the second elections with the new electoral law.

Barring extraordinary events in the next two months, reports indicate that Parliament will be dissolved on March 3 or 10 and elections will be called. The first election will be held on April 9. The second, under the new electoral law, on May 14 or 21. Political developments in Ankara will also play a role in the final decisions of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

According to estimates, the prevalent scenario is that the first round of the presidential elections in Turkey will be held on May 14, from which no winner is expected to emerge. The country will thus head for a runoff...