By Athena Papakosta

The international media were constantly focused on Greece in this election as well, from the first moment with the exit polls until late at night.

Already at 60% of integration, the Associated Press news agency spoke of a “huge lead for New Democracy” but also of a “big defeat for the left-wing opposition”.

The British news network BBC broadcast the applause of New Democracy voters as, as it reported, “the exit poll captured the unexpected scale of the New Democracy victory” underlining that “it became clear that the polls had underestimated the margin of 20 points between of two main parties”.

Also, the British news network, from early on and throughout the evening, on the occasion of the fact that the Greek ruling party did not gather the required majority for the formation of a government, focused its interest on the percentages of PASOK and the fact that the party of Nikos Androulaki could act as the next day’s moderator “if the Greek prime minister seeks to hold talks on the formation in the coming days.”

For its part, the British newspaper, The Guardian, pointed out the difference of 20 points between ND and SYRIZA, noting that “this is a difference that is rarely observed (s.s. in Greece) after the fall of the junta in 1974”. On the occasion that even in Crete, the “stronghold of the Socialists”, as he notes, New Democracy did “surprisingly well”, he comments, citing Androulakis’ statements, that PASOK with its percentages is on course “to replace SYRIZA as main left opposition”.

For the Financial Times, Kyriakos Mitsotakis “stunned his main rivals by unexpectedly increasing his centre-right party’s share of the vote” noting that “no ruling party has increased its share in elections for 40 years”. As far as SYRIZA is concerned, the Financial Times notes that “the elections were a potentially threatening blow to the career of Alexis Tsipras”.

The French Le Monde refers to the “overwhelming”, as it characterizes, victory of the New Democracy stressing that a second vote will be needed “to ensure a stable government”. At the same time, Politico speaks of an “overwhelming victory” for the ruling party in Greece, adding that it will have to wait until the next election “this summer for its attempt to secure an absolute majority”.

The German DW, for its part, does not overlook the fact that there is a “gap” between the Greek political parties and, therefore, “negotiations will likely be thorny, making a second ballot at the end of June or the beginning of July possible.”

The American Washington Post, after writing about the overwhelming election of New Democracy, focused on the “gap” between the two largest parties in Greece and turned its attention to the voters of SYRIZA who, as it noted, “expressed their disappointment”. In fact, in statements made by the supporter of Alexis Tsipras’s party, he told the American newspaper that “those people who understand their position, the poverty and misery they have been put in, and continue to vote for them (s.s. New Democracy) deserve what they get ».

The international media will continue today to write and analyze the next day in our country while the electoral perch is now starting to sit down.