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The polls opened at 7 am local time in the United Kingdom for the participation of Greek citizens in the parliamentary elections.

Registered voters who will be able to attend the polls set up in 13 polling stations in six locations in five UK cities amount to 5,624, i.e. 686 more than those of the first election battle.

The election process will last 12 hours, until 7 pm local time.

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In London there are 4,414 registered, in Leeds 366, in Birmingham 355, in Edinburgh 339 and in Glasgow 150.

• Two polling stations will operate in London: a) in the building of the Greek Embassy (1A Holland Park, W11 3TP), where voters with surnames starting from A to MOUL will vote in five sections, and b) in the Greek Kindergarten and Primary School London (3 Pierrepoint Rd, W3 9JR West Acton), where voters with surnames starting from MUDD to OH will vote in four divisions.
• In Leeds the vote will be held at the Building of the Greek Orthodox Community of Leeds, The three Hierarchs, 57 Harehills Avenue, Leeds LS8 4EU
• In Birmingham the vote will be held at the Hellenic Cypriot Home Building, The Midlands Greek and Cypriot Association, Magnet Center Park Approach, Birmingham B23 7SJ
• In Edinburgh, voting will be held at the Greek School of St. Andreas of Edinburgh, which is housed in the plot of the old Greek Orthodox Church of Ag. Andreas, 2 Meadow Ln, Edinburgh, EH8 9 NR
• In Glasgow, voting will be held at the Greek School of St. Loukas Glasgow, which is housed in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Luke, Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Luke, 27 Dundonald Rd, Glasgow G12 9LL

Six UK election monitors have been appointed to facilitate voting.

In each electoral division, voting will be done before an electoral committee, consisting of the representative of the judicial authority, as President, and three voters, from those included in the special foreign electoral lists of the relevant diplomatic region.

Once the polls are closed, the electoral commissions will count the files without opening them. The ballot bags with the ballots of the voters in Britain and the rest of the countries will be transported the next day to Athens by air and then, with a police escort, to the Athens Court of Appeal. The votes will be sorted there when the polls close in Greek territory.