Mitsotakis back as Greek prime minister after election landslide
- Greece’s conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in an election
- Voters give Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis embarked Monday on his second term as Greece’s prime minister with a vow to accelerate institutional and economic reforms, after voters handed him a huge election victory for the second time in five weeks.
Crediting Mitsotakis and his New Democracy party for bringing economic stability to the erstwhile EU debt laggard, voters gave the conservatives their widest winning margin in almost 50 years on Sunday.
Hailing the “strong mandate”, Mitsotakis said that “major reforms will proceed rapidly”, adding that he had “ambitious” targets for his next four years in power that could “transform” Greece.
Among his pledges is pouring money into Greece’s public health system - which was stretched to its limits by the Covid-19 pandemic - and improving railway safety after the deaths of 57 people in a February train collision that was Greece’s worst rail disaster.
The 55-year-old former McKinsey consultant and Harvard graduate said Sunday that he “constantly strove to improve and learn from my mistakes”.