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A view of the Greek parliament, in Athens, Greece, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Greeks return to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with the conservative front-runners eyeing a landslide win after toppling strongholds dominated by their opponents for decades. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greek conservative party is favored to win majority in second general election in 5 weeks

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

A woman stands in front of the parliament, in Athens, Greece, Saturday, May 20, 2023, a day before the general elections. Sunday's Greek parliamentary election looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season — barring a surprise coalition deal by dissonant opposition parties. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greece votes in first election since international bailout spending controls ended

By Elena Becatoros and Theodora Tongas - Associated Press

From right to left, New Democracy leader and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras, PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Nikos Androulakis, Communist Party of Greece Secretary General Dimitris Koutsoubas, Greek Solution leader Kyriakos Velopoulos, and MeRA25 Secretary Yanis Varoufakis wait for the start of debate at the premises of public broadcaster ERT in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Sunday’s Greek parliamentary election looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season — barring a surprise coalition deal by dissonant opposition parties. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Focus on coalition horse-trading as Greek election looks unlikely to deliver a strong winner

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 4, 2019, file photo, Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks during his main election campaign rally in Athens. Greece holds a general election Sunday, called three months early by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he suffered a stinging defeat in European Parliament elections in May to conservative rivals who appear to be strengthening their position according to recent opinion polls. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Conservative party wins Greek election, ousts left-wing PM

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Supporter wave Greek flags as Greek opposition New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, speaks during his main election campaign rally in Athens, in front of the ancient Acropolis hill, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Greeks head to the polls in early general elections on Sunday, July 7. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek election: Voters crave return to mainstream politics

By THEODORA TONGAS and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

CORRECTING NAME OF PRESIDENT TO PROKOPIS PAVLOPOULOS - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, enters his office after his meeting with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, in Athens, on Monday, June 10, 2019. Tsipras visited Greece's president to formally call for the dissolution of parliament and early elections on July 7, following his party's heavy defeat in European elections last month.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek president OKs request for early election on July 7

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS - Associated Press

Greek prime minister to ask president for early election

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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras makes statements at the Syriza party headquarters in Athens on Sunday, May 26, 2019. Tsipras calls for a snap national election following European election loss. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek prime minister calls for early election after EU loss

By DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, delivers a speech during a parliamentary session in Athens, on Friday, May 10, 2019. Greek lawmakers are holding a vote of confidence in the left-wing government, after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras turned a censure motion against a junior minister into a test of his entire administration. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

The Latest: Greek government survives confidence vote

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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, and his lawmakers applaud after a parliamentary session where the government won a confidence vote, in Athens, on Friday, May 10, 2019. Greek lawmakers were holding a vote of confidence in the left-wing government, after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras turned a censure motion against a junior minister into a test of his entire administration. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greece: Government wins confidence vote ahead of EU polls

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

A stray dog sits in central Syntagma as people walk past, with the parliament on the background, in Athens, on Monday, March 4, 2019. Greece said Monday it is planning to issue a 10-year bond, in its second test of financial market confidence in the country since it officially exited its international bailouts in August. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek bond sale marks milestone in nation’s recovery

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, his partner Betty Baziana, left, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I pose for the photographers during their visit at the Theological School of Halki, in Heybeli Island, near Istanbul, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. The president of Turkey and the prime minister of Greece agreed Tuesday on the need to keep &quot;channels of dialogue&quot; open between their countries, which have come to the brink of war three times since the early 1970s and remain divided over an array of issues. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Greece calls for reopening of Istanbul’s Orthodox seminary

By EMRAH GUREL - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party at the parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Turkey, Greece stress need for dialogue

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, reacts during a parliament debate about Prespa Agreement in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Greek lawmakers are debating a historic agreement aimed at normalizing relations with Macedonia in a stormy parliamentary session scheduled to culminate in a Friday vote. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek lawmakers ratify Macedonia name-change deal

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, speaks during a parliamentary session in Athens, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Greece's prime minister is defending his deal to normalize relations with neighboring Macedonia ahead of a confidence vote in parliament after his governing coalition collapsed over the agreement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The Latest: Greek PM Tsipras survives confidence vote

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The guard of honor stand during the handover ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. during the handover ceremony in Athens, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Newly appointed Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis retired admiral left his post as head of the country's armed forces to replace Panos Kammenos, leader of a small nationalist party, who withdrew from the government coalition at the weekend over disagreement on a proposed deal between Greece and neighbor Macedonia. Greece's parliament has scheduled a confidence vote for late Wednesday following the collapse of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' governing coalition over a proposed deal to end a decades-old dispute with Macedonia. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek PM defends Macedonia deal ahead of confidence vote

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, arrives to make a statement following the resignation of Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, in Athens, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Kammenos, leader of the junior partner in the country's coalition government, has resigned over the Macedonia name deal, which he opposes. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek govt faces confidence vote after coalition collapses

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, talks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during their meeting in Athens, Thursday Jan. 10, 2019. Merkel is in Greece for talks. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece, Germany put tension behind them in Merkel visit

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Opponents to the change of the country's constitutional name protest outside the parliament building prior to a session of the Macedonian Parliament in the capital Skopje, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Macedonian lawmakers are entering the last phase of debate on constitutional changes to rename their country North Macedonia as part of a deal with neighboring Greece to pave the way for NATO membership and eventually joining the European Union. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Debate over renaming nation enters final days in Macedonia

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, May 4, 2018 file photo, migrants and refugees wait outside the European Asylum Support Service offices inside the camp of Moria on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. A fleet of cars and a bus has set off from the Netherlands on Friday, Dec. 21 in a continent-crossing convoy that aims to raise awareness of the plight of migrants languishing in overcrowded Greek island camps and maybe even bring some of them back to the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, file)

Dutch convoy sets off for Greece, hoping to help migrants

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press