Mitsotakis becomes new Greek PM

ATHENS - Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won Greece's parliamentary elections on Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a tumultuous four years in office as the country struggled through a crippling financial crisis.

With more than 90 percent of votes counted, Mitsotakis' New Democracy party had 39.8 percent of the votes, compared to 31.5 percent for Tsipras' left-wing Syriza Party.

The extreme right-wing Golden Dawn Party, founded by neo-Nazi supporters, narrowly failed to make the 3 percent threshold needed to enter parliament - a huge fall of support for a party that had become the third-largest in the Greek legislature during the country's financial crisis.