ND surges to power, promising change

Center-right New Democracy surged to a decisive victory in general elections on Sunday, paving the way for leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis to form a comfortable majority government this week. 

With 86.4 percent of votes counted late last night, ND had secured 39.77 percent, over SYRIZA's 31.55 - a more resilient performance than had been expected. This translates to 158 seats for ND and 86 for SYRIZA. 

Center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) came in third with 7.94 percent (22 seats) and the Greek Communist Party (KKE) with 5.35 percent (15 seats). 

In one of the most significant developments of the evening, neo-Nazi Golden Dawn was out of Greece's Parliament after failing to reach the 3 percent threshold with 2.96 percent. \

However, the nationalist, pro-Russian Greek Solution, which drew a significant proportion of GD's voters, made it into the House with 3...