Greek Opposition Leader Mitsotakis Seals Sweeping Victory
- Former banker wins clear parliamentary majority in snap vote
- Outgoing Premier Tsipras’s Syriza party slips to around 32%
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Greece’s center-right New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will take over Monday as prime minister, after Sunday’s election victory handed the former banker a mandate to tackle the nation’s chronic woes following a decade-long financial crisis.
New Democracy won 39.9% of the vote, with almost the ballots counted, according to the interior ministry, compared with 31.5% for the leftist Syriza party of outgoing premier Alexis Tsipras.