Kyriakos Mitsotakis Sworn-In As Greece Prime Minister

Athens: Centre-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s new Prime Minister on Monday just a day after his New Democracy party landed an absolute majority in the country’s elections, which put an end to the left-wing Syriza government. Unlike his predecessor Alexis Tspiras back in 2015, Kyriakos Mitsotakis took a religious oath of office with his hand on the Bible in the presence of the Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymous II, and several other Orthodox representatives in a traditional ceremony at the presidential palace, reported Efe news. “I swear in the name of the Holy, Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity to safeguard the Constitution and the laws and to serve the general interest of the Greek People,” he said, joined by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, his wife and three children. (IANS)

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