Greece’s centre-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis to be sworn in as Prime Minister

• Greece’s centre-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to be sworn in as the Prime Minister today after winning a second term with a record-high margin. With 99.67 percent of the vote counted, Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party had 40.55 percent of the vote - more than twice the main opposition Syriza’s 17.84 percent. It was the largest margin of victory in half a century, and slightly expanded New Democracy's 20-percentage-point lead in the previous election five weeks before.
• Held under a new electoral law that boosts the first party, yesterday’s vote gives New Democracy a comfortable majority of 158 seats in the 300-member Parliament, with Syriza getting 48.
• Center-left PASOK elected 32 lawmakers and the Stalinist-rooted Communist Party 20. The remaining 42 seats will be shared between three far-right parties and one representing the far left.
• Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou is set to formally hand over Mitsotakis, the mandate to form a government, after which he will be sworn in and announce his new Cabinet. 55 year old Mitsotakis, a Harvard graduate and former baker comes from one of Greece’s most prominent political families. His late father, Constantine Mitsotakis, served as the Prime Minister in the 1990s, his sister served as foreign minister and his nephew is the current mayor of Athens.

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