Center-right political leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be sworn-in as Greece’s new prime minister on Monday, with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos swearing-in the new head of government in the eastern Mediterranean country.
A day earlier, Mitsotakis’ New Democracy (ND) party picked up nearly 40 percent of the general vote to come in first, leaving incumbent SYRIZA second at around 32 percent.
The brief religious oath will be given at the presidential mansion, in the presence of the head of state, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Mitsotakis’ family.
New Cabinet members will be sworn-in on Tuesday morning, also by the Primate of the Church of Greece. Four years ago, members of new government of now ex-prime minister Alexis Tsipras declined a religious oath.