Greek prime minister to seek outright majority after huge election lead

Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses supporters at the headquarters of his party in Athens (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose conservative party has won a landslide election but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government, has said he will seek a second election to consolidate his victory without the need for a coalition partner.

Mr Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party was 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, with nearly 90% of the votes counted on Sunday.