mo4ch:>Left-wing Greek PM Tsipras calls for snap elections after party takes beating at EU & home polls | Mo4ch News

Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose Syriza party has suffered a major blow at the European polls, has said he would ask the country's president to call early elections.With a third of the ballots counted, Tsipras' Syriza is trailing some 10 percent behind its main rival, conservative New Democracy Party. According to the preliminary results, Syriza has gained 24 percent of the vote, while the conservatives stand at over 33 percent.In a televised speech, Tsipras said that the outcome of the elections was far from what he had hoped for, but noted that it won't discourage him from political work. "I will not run away or quit the struggle for equality, solidarity, social justice," he said.Also on rt.comGreek MPs back Macedonia name-change deal in narrow vote amid repeated protestsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been celebrating the conservatives' strong performance at the polls. In his victory speech, he said that by voting do…