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Greece’s center-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to be sworn in as prime minister for a second consecutive term

ATHENS: 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.

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…

Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early as Monday, ahead of fresh elections on June 25

Ioannis Sarmas, a senior judge, was sworn in as Greece's caretaker prime minister on Thursday to lead the country to a repeat election on June 25 following Sunday's inconclusive vote.