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Announcement comes after main opposition party suffered staggering electoral defeat in parliamentary election.

Party has its work cut out to raise investment, economic growth and wages while lowering debt and unemployment.

Greece's conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory in the country's second election in five weeks Sunday, official projections based on early returns showed, gaining enough parliamentary seats to form a government for a second four-year term.

Voters have given reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis a second term as prime minister.

Greeks are returning to the polls for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with conservatives favoured to win

Polls have opened in Greece for the second general election in less than two months, with the conservative party a strong favorite to win with a wide majority

Centre-right New Democracy party appears to be heading for landslide victory in Sunday’s repeat poll

Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin

Not long ago, Greece was Europe’s “economic and political problem child”, said Alan Posener in Die Welt (Berlin). The 2010 debt crisis had led to a 25% contraction in its economy – unemployment had hit 27%; people were rioting in the streets – and as a condition of receiving the massive bailouts…