Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras

Greece's opposition conservatives returned to power with a landslide victory in snap elections on Sunday, and Prime Minister elect Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he had a clear mandate for change, pledging more investments and fewer taxes.

New Democracy has garnered a solid parliamentary majority according to exit polls that give Greece's conservative party a landslide 12 percentage point lead over left-wing SYRIZA.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to be sworn in as Prime Minister by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Mansion at 1pm tomorrow, 8 July.

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed confidence that he will emerge victorious in Sunday's general elections, saying Greeks have the country's fate in their hands.

Greece holds a general election Sunday, called three months early by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he suffered a stinging defeat in European Parliament elections in May to conservative rivals who appear to be strengthening their position according to recent opinion polls.

As polls opened for Greece's general elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged people to vote, saying today's result will "determine our lives."

"The ballot boxes are empty and all possibilities are open. It is the decision of each and every one [of you] that will decide the outcome," he said in a comment on his Twitter account.

Greeks are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect their first post-bailout government and the 19th since the restoration of democracy in 1974.

The snap elections were called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after his SYRIZA party suffered a significant defeat in the European and local elections held in the country last month.

As Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis make their last campaign push ahead of Sunday's snap election, a new opinion poll by Pulse for Skai shows ND holding a firm 8-percentage point lead over leftist SYRIZA. 

Greek voters appear set to defy a surge of support populist parties across Europe in a general election Sunday, with the pro-EU center-right opposition firmly in the lead.

Greece's conservative New Democracy party has a 10- to 15.5 percentage point lead over the ruling leftist Syriza ahead of a snap election on Sunday, two polls published on Friday showed.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis's New Democracy was on course to win 35.2 percent of the vote, with Syriza on 25.4 percent, a poll by Rass showed.

1. Alexis Tsipras will almost certainly not be the next Prime Minister.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in central Athens, Greece, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/YANNIS KOLESIDIS