Mitsotakis vows stability and credibility, while promising not to defeat expectations

The government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a confidence vote (158 to 142) in Parliament on Monday after a three-day debate on his administration's policy statements.

Speaking ahead of the vote, Mitsotakis said his government will "not defeat people's expectations" and vowed to do everything in his power to improve people's lives.

After announcing sweeping tax cuts on Saturday, he promised Monday that Greece "will enjoy stability at home and credibility abroad." 

Mitsotakis said Greece will meet its primary surplus target of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product, insisting that a lowering of the target "will be possible once the government proves its reformist credentials."

He also slammed the previous government of Alexis Tsipras and his former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, calling them "catastrophe twins" because of the damage, he said, they wreaked...