Pickup expected in postal vote from abroad

Some 17,000 people have registered in just 11 days on the Interior Ministry platform for the postal vote, which creates optimism that the project will eventually be crowned with success.

Initially, of the 17,302 citizens who have registered to vote by mail, the majority (68.3%) are within Greece, while the rest live outside the country. More specifically, 11,824 citizens had registered in Greece until Friday.

From abroad, respectively, 5,478 registered, corresponding to 31.7%. However, the gap is narrowing as, in the first days, the percentage of Greeks abroad who had registered was only 24% and now it has risen to 32%, with government sources predicting it will rise further.

The same sources said the difference in applications between inside and outside Greece "was to be expected." Tellingly, the international information campaign has not yet started and is...