After winning New Democracy Mitsotakis promises a change

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the new centre-right prime minister of Greece has vowed that the country will “proudly raise its head again”. Mitsotakis marked his victory in New Democracy’s landslide on Sunday.

Mitsotakis said that he had a clear mandate for change and promised more investment and fewer taxes. He said that he would not fail to “honour the hopes” of the Greek people.

He added that he would be a prime minister for all because Greeks were “too few to stay divided”.

This victory has arrived four years after Alexis Tsipras’s leftist Syriza party came into power. According to the recent results, 39.77 per cent of voters backed New Democracy, translating to 158 seats. The leftist Syriza party of Tsipras occupied the second place with 31.53%.

Tsipras said that he had called Mitsotakis to offer him his congratulations. Tsipras said to the medias, “Today, with our head held high we accept the people’s verdict. To bring Greece to where it is today we had to take difficult decisions [with] a heavy political cost”.

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