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Mr Karamanlis' poor handling of a series of natural disasters played a strong role in his election loss (Photo: European Commission)

Greek socialists win snap general election

Greece's socialists have won a strong parliamentary majority over the governing conservatives, according to exit polls from Sunday's (4 October) general election in the country.

The centre-left Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or Pasok, of leader George Papandreou, is leading according to the polls, with 43 percent of the vote, giving the party 159 seats in the 300-seat chamber.

The centre-right New Democracy of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, which had called a snap election onl...

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Mr Karamanlis' poor handling of a series of natural disasters played a strong role in his election loss (Photo: European Commission)

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