Greek Voters Welcome Centrist Government, Reject Leftists Amid Long Financial Crisis
As their economy continues to flag, Greeks turn to the center-right and a more conservative leader. Four years after Greece nearly left the European Union, a new prime minister has been sworn in.
by Joanna Kakissis
Jul 08, 2019
3 minutes
Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET
Greeks elected a conservative party led by the scion of a powerful political dynasty in national elections on Sunday, a rejection of the country's left-wing government seen as being too slow in improving the economy after a long financial crisis.
"The Greek people gave us a strong mandate to change Greece," Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the New Democracy party told reporters shortly after he was . "I'm confident we
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