Greece’s new parliament sworn in following conservative party’s election victory

Greece’s new MPs were sworn in on Monday, just over a week after a general election which saw a number of smaller fringe parties from both the right and left of the political spectrum enter Parliament for the first time (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Greece’s new MPs were sworn in on Monday, just over a week after a general election which saw a number of smaller fringe parties from both the right and left of the political spectrum enter Parliament for the first time.

The 300 members of parliament were inducted during a religious ceremony after the June 25 polls returned conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to power for a second four-year term in a landslide victory, crushing the left-wing opposition Syriza party and prompting opposition leader Alexis Tsipras to announce his resignation.