Mitsotakis takes over as Greece's PM with radical change of style
by Helena Smith in Athens from World news | The Guardian on (#4JQJ1)
After steering New Democracy to landslide win, former banker says 'hard work begins today'
Greece's outgoing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has handed over power to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a former banker who navigated the centre-right New Democracy party to landslide victory in Sunday's snap general elections.
In a changing of the guard that was as subdued as it was swift, Mitsotakis assumed office after he was officially sworn in by the Orthodox country's spiritual leader, Archbishop Ieronymos.
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