Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitzotakis Wins Runoff Election

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Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitzotakis won yesterday's runoff election in a complete landslide. He and his center right party called New Democracy will be able to form a government without a coalition partner. The main opposition party, the Suresha party did very poorly with more than half of the votes counted. It is still not clear if Tsipras will remain the leadership or he will have to resign soon.

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