Greece Elects Conservative Government In Landslide Vote

Daily Mail: Greece's radical leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras LOSES snap election to conservative New Democracy party led by politician from one of the country's most powerful families

* Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat after partial vote count showed the opposition had comfortably won election
* Centre-right New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis had 39.7 per cent of the vote, enough to win easily
* PM-elect Mitsotakis is from one of Greece's top political families and is also the son of a former prime minister
* Ahead of today's vote, three opinion polls predicted a clear victory for the conservative New Democracy party

Radical left-wing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has conceded defeat after a partial vote count showed the conservative opposition had comfortably won a snap parliamentary election.

The centre-right New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis had 39.7 per cent of the vote compared to Mr Tsipras' Syriza party's 31.5 per cent after nearly 60 per cent of ballots were tallied. Turn out in today's snap election was around 57 per cent.

Mr Tsipras's Syriza party has held power in the country for nearly five years, making him Greece's longest- serving crisis premier and youngest in almost half a century at 44.

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Greek elections: Centre-right regains power -- BBC
Greek elections: landslide victory for centre-right New Democracy party -- The Guardian
Greek Elections: Prime Minister Loses Re-Election to Center Right -- The New York Times
Greece election: Prime minister concedes defeat as Conservative New Democracy party set to win absolute majority in parliament -- The Independent
Greek conservatives score 'clear victory' in snap election -- DW
Tsipras concedes defeat to New Democracy party in Greece election -- Al Jazeera
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