Mitsotakis aims again for single-party government after spring election

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated, in an interview published Sunday, that the next national election will take place in the spring.

Pressed by interviewer Dimtris Danikas, a veteran journalist with Sunday newspaper "Proto Thema," who asks whether the election will take place on April 2 or 9, Mitsotakis responded that "it could be in May."

Mitsotakis' four-year term expires in July and the timing will be influenced by the almost universal expectation that two elections will be held in quick succession because no party will win a majority in the 300-member Parliament.

The next two elections will be conducted under different electoral systems - a proportional representation system voted by the previous leftist government and one giving a bonus of 30 seats in the 300-member Parliament to the winner.

In the widely envisioned scenario, the...