New Greek Prime Minister – level 1

17-07-2019 07:00

People in Greece vote. They choose who goes to the parliament. Forty per cent of votes want a conservative party.

The party gets 158 seats out of 300 in the parliament. The leader of the party becomes the Greek prime minister. His name is Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He says what he wants to do before he becomes prime minister. He wants to make Greece strong again. He wants to make Greece better for business.

Difficult words: conservative (traditional), party (a political group), seat (a place).

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