Mitsotakis is new Greek PM after comfortable election win

Athens

CONSERVATIVE politician Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece's new prime minister on Monday after storming to victory on a pledge to create jobs and lure investment to the economically stricken nation.

Mr Mitsotakis's New Democracy party won an outright majority with 158 seats in the 300-seat legislature. His pledges for more investments, well-paid jobs and fewer taxes won over Greeks worn out by years of EU-prescribed austerity and the euro zone's highest unemployment.

"Today we get started on the hard work. I have absolute confidence in our abilities to rise to the occasion," Mr Mitsotakis said after he was sworn in at a ceremony officiated by Greek Orthodox clergy at the presidential pa…