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Submitted by ctv_en_7 on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 09:00
The governing conservative party of PM Costas Karamanlis on Sunday claimed victory in Greece's general election, with opposition socialists conceding defeat.

With most votes counted, George Papandreou's socialist Pasok party trailed Mr Karamanlis's New Democracy party by about four percentage points.


New Democracy had a 43 percent share of the vote compared with 38.5 percent for
Pasok.


This would correspond to 154 seats in the country's 300-member parliament - 11 fewer than they held after the last election, but enough for an absolute majority.


Figures indicated that New Democracy would win most seats in parliament, but would hold a smaller majority.


Mr Karamanlis told his supporters that the party had been given a "clear mandate" to continue reforms.

The vote was overshadowed by forest fires that killed dozens in August.

BBC/VOVNews

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