Crushing victory of conservatives in Greek general elections

Greek Conservative Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, promised that the country was proudly entering a post-rescue period of "work, security and growth" after its overwhelming victory in Sunday's general elections.

Monday morning's official results showed that Mitsotakis was about to crush leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was overseeing austerity measures after Greece's spectacular bailout by international creditors in the crisis. of the European debt.

"A painful cycle is over," Mitsotakis said in a televised speech, adding that Greece "would proudly lift its head" under its watch.

"I will not fail to meet your hopes," he said at the announcement of the first congratulatory appeals by outgoing European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan .

With the official results of 94% of polling stations, New Democracy won a landslide victory with nearly 40% of the vote – its best score for more than 10 years – 31.5% for the left party Syriza Tsipras .

Mitsotakis will be sworn in on Monday as the new Greek prime minister.

If the results are confirmed, the 51-year-old Harvard graduate and former McKinsey consultant Mitsotakis will have a majority of 158 MPs in the 300-seat parliament.