Conservative politician Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken office as Greece's new prime minister and named his cabinet after storming to victory on a pledge to create jobs and lure investment.
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Mitsotakis's New Democracy party won an outright majority with 158 seats in the 300-seat legislature.
His pledges for more investments, well-paid jobs and fewer taxes won over Greeks worn out by years of EU-prescribed austerity and the euro zone's highest unemployment.
"Today we get started on the hard work. I have absolute confidence in our abilities to rise to the occasion," Mitsotakis said after he was sworn in at a ceremony officiated by Greek Orthodox clergy at the presidential palace in Athens on Monday.
He was later welcomed by outgoing premier Alexis Tsipras, a leftist who steered Greece out of bailouts.
Tsipras was blamed for botching negotiations with international lenders and saddling the nation with more debt after he took over in 2015.
Mitsotakis appointed economist Christos Staikouras, 46, as his government's finance minister and named lawyer and former minister Nikos Dendias, 60, to head the foreign ministry.
Greeks hope the new government can make the economy stronger after the country emerged from the close surveillance of its international lenders last year.
For Mitsotakis the first test is likely to come from outside Greece, as tensions simmer between its close ally Cyprus and historic foe Turkey over offshore energy reserves.
Australian Associated Press