Greece's conservatives win election, pledge more reforms

Former Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, promised more reforms at a faster pace after his conservative party won the second general election in five weeks and an outright majority in parliament on Sunday.

With 95 percent of the votes counted, New Democracy (ND) party garnered 40.55 percent of the votes, securing 158 seats in the next 300-member parliament to form a single-party government.

Mitsotakis, who was prime minister from 2019 until stepping down in favor of a caretaker premier following an inconclusive May vote, has vowed to push ahead with reforms to rebuild the country's credit rating after the debt crisis that wracked the nation for a decade. During his second term in office, Greece will change further, he said, pledging more prosperity for all.