Mitsotakis to be sworn in as Greek PM

Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be sworn in as Greece’s prime minister, a day after a resounding win for his New Democracy party in repeat elections gave him a second four-year term.
His centre-right party got an overall majority – 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament – well ahead of the 48 secured by leftist Syriza which ran the country from 2015-2019, at the height of the decade-long economic crisis.
“I feel the heavy weight of the responsibility Greeks have laid on my shoulders,” Mitsotakis told President Katerina Sakellaropoulou after receiving an official mandate to form a government.
The 55-year-old former banker and scion of a powerful political family was prime minister from 2019 until stepping down in favour of a caretaker premier following an inconclusive May 21 vote.
He has promised to push ahead with reforms to rebuild the credit rating after the debt crisis, and to boost revenue from the vital tourist industry, create jobs and increase wages to near the European Union average.