In the wake of the disaster the country’s political party leaders suspended campaigning for the upcoming parliamentary vote, as three days of national mourning were declared
The country’s political party leaders suspended campaigning for the June 25th parliamentary vote as the interim and non-partisan government, established after May’s inconclusive election, declared three days of national mourning in the wake of the disaster.
The feared huge loss of life has cast a shadow over the election campaign. But the right-of-centre New Democracy party led by the former prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is still expected to win an overall majority in parliament under a different proportional electoral system from that used last month. In that votefinished 21 percentage points ahead of the radical leftist Syriza party, but fell five seats short of an outright victory.
What is so far known about the sinking of the vessel that cast off from Tobruk is consistent with recent developments in human smuggling in the region. Most of the victims are understood to be Egyptians, Pakistanis, Palestinians and Syrians.
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