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Greek Election Winner to be Sworn in as Prime Minister

Greek Election Winner to be Sworn in as Prime Minister

Monday, 08 July 2019 03:39 AM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — 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.

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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...
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Monday, 08 July 2019 03:39 AM
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