Reuters reported on June 26 that Greece's New Democracy Party won the parliamentary election, as many voters voted to help Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (55 years old) be re-elected for another 4-year term.

According to Greek Interior Ministry figures, with the majority of votes counted, the center-right party led with 40.5% and won 158 of the 300 seats in parliament.

That is more than 20% higher than Syriza, the left-wing party that won elections in 2015 at the height of the debt crisis and governed the country until 2019, when it lost the election to the New Democracy party.

"This support increases my responsibility to respond to people's hopes. Personally, I feel an even stronger obligation to serve the country to the best of my ability," Mitsotakis told a cheering crowd at the New Democracy party headquarters in Athens.

The Syriza party suffered a heavy defeat in the June 25 election, losing more than 30 seats in parliament. The party's leader, Alexis Tsipras, said that a "good and creative cycle" of Syriza had ended and that it should be looked back on with pride.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mitsotakis pledged to boost tourism revenue, create jobs and raise wages closer to the European Union (EU) average. He said he would push through reforms to rebuild Greece's credit rating, following the impact of the debt crisis.

The June 25 election was the second in five weeks, after the May 21 election failed to result in a single party winning a majority in parliament.