Kyriakos Mitsotakis sworn in for second term as Greece’s PM

Greece’s newly re-elected prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (L) is sworn in during a ceremony in the presidential palace in Athens on June 26, 2023 following the general elections. Mitsotakis embarked on June 26, 2023 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. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP)

Agence France-Presse

Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in Monday for a second term as Greece’s prime minister, a day after voters handed him a huge election victory for the second time in five weeks.

Mitsotakis took his oath of office in the presidential palace at a ceremony before the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, according to the tradition of the deeply religious country.

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