Mitsotakis back as Greek premier after election landslide

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Voters gave the conservatives their widest winning margin in almost 50 years on Sunday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ATHENS - Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis embarked Monday on his second term as Greece’s prime minister with a vow to accelerate institutional and economic reforms, after voters handed him

“We will begin working hard for big reforms,” he added, underlining that he had pledged to “put in place major changes during the second four-year mandate”. The 55-year-old former McKinsey consultant and Harvard graduate, who steered the EU nation from the pandemic back to two consecutive years of strong growth, had already scored a resounding win in an election in May.

Mr Tsipras, acknowledging a “serious political defeat”, said he was leaving his political fate to the “judgement” of Syriza members. Spartiates , which is endorsed by the jailed former spokesman of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, will make an entrance in Parliament after crossing the three-per cent threshold.

 

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