Greek Conservatives Win Election, Left-Wing Prime Minister Tsipras Concedes Defeat

Greece’s opposition 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.

Greek New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks outside party's headquarters, after the general election in Athens, Greece, on July 7, 2019. Costas Baltas/Reuters

ATHENS—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.

The win appeared driven by fatigue with years of European Union-enforced belt-tightening, combined with high unemployment, after the country almost crashed out of the euro zone at the height of its financial travails in 2015.