Conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis sworn in as Greece’s prime minister

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, takes the oath (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Centre-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been formally sworn in as Greece’s prime minister after easily winning a second term with a record margin over the left-wing opposition, but also facing a parliament that includes legislators from new far-right parties.

With 99.7% of the vote counted, his New Democracy party had 40.55% — more than twice the main opposition Syriza party’s 17.84%. It was the largest margin of victory in a Greek election in half a century and slightly expanded New Democracy’s 20 percentage point lead in an election held five weeks earlier.