ATHENS (Sputnik) – According to the party’s election committee, a second round of elections will be held on January 10.
The New Democracy elections were originally scheduled for November 22, but were cancelled because of technical problems at polling stations.
The new leader of the New Democracy party, to be elected later this month, will become the main rival of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his ruling Syriza party.
Syriza has been losing popularity as it has failed to follow through on its promise to revise Greece’s austerity measures after securing victory in the January elections.
On Thursday, Greeks held a general strike protesting against austerity measures, demanded by the country's international lenders in return for an 86-billion-euro (about $91 billion at the current rate) third bailout package, agreed by Tsipras in July.
