THE “Erdogan-isation” of Greece is almost complete, said former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, after the right wing scored a surprise general election landslide on Sunday.

Even with the big win, Greece’s right-wing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the New Democracy party (ND) is expected today to seek a second national election within weeks, as he lacks the majority in parliament to govern alone.

The one-off proportional representation system used on Sunday means that ND won 146 of Parliament’s 300 seats, some five seats short of a governing majority. 

The new elections, expected in late June or early July, will revert to the previous system that grants the first party a bonus of up to 50 seats ensuring Mr Mitsotakis a comfortable majority for a second term in power.

Mr Mitsotakis’s ND party won about 41 per cent of the vote which was twice the left-wing main opposition Syriza’s 20.07 per cent. 

Socialist Pasok came in third at 11.46 per cent.

In an otherwise disappointing result for the left, the Communist Party of Greece achieved 7.23 per cent of the vote, giving them 26 MPs — 11 more than the previous elections. 

The margin of victory for the right far outstripped pollsters’ forecasts and was the biggest since 1974 when Greece’s first democratic elections were held after the fall of the seven-year military dictatorship.

Mr Mitsotakis said on Sunday: “Without a doubt, the political earthquake that occurred today calls on us all to speed up the process for a definitive government solution so our country can have an experienced hand at its helm as soon as possible.” 

The incumbent prime minister had long suggested he would not seek a coalition partner whatever the election outcome.

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras called Mr Mitsotakis on Sunday night to congratulate him.

“The result is exceptionally negative for Syriza,” he said in initial statements. “Fights have winners and losers.”   

But Mr Varoufakis, leader of the European Realistic Disobedience Front Party, which lost all of its 11 seats, said an “ultra-rightist tsunami” had swept the land.

He said there was “a cunning resemblance” between what happened in Greece and what happened last week at the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections. 

Describing the outcome as the now near complete “Erdogan-isation” of Greece, he said, like Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mr Mitsotakis had deployed “a combination of ultra-nationalism, social conservatism, a pro-big business agenda, a network of patronage and huge doses of authoritarianism” in order to win.