(ANSA-AP) - ATHENS, 08 JUL - Conservative party leader
Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be sworn in as Greece's new prime
minister after a resounding win over left-wing Alexis Tsiparas,
who led the country through the tumultuous final years of its
international bailouts.
Mitsotakis' New Democracy party won 39.8% of the vote, giving
him 158 seats in the 300-member parliament, a comfortable
governing majority. Tsipras' Coalition of the Radical Left, or
Syriza, garnered 31.5%. The extremist right-wing Golden Dawn,
Greece's third largest party during the height of the financial
crisis, failed to make the 3% threshold to enter parliament.
Mitsotakis will have to move fast to deal with the myriad
problems still plaguing the economy. Europe's finance ministers
are meeting in Brussels on Monday and will be discussing Greece,
which still has stringent fiscal targets to meet. (ANSA-AP).
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