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"Our direction is to work harder and talk less," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the first meeting of New Democracy's new parliamentary group on Friday.

"The sovereign Greek people spoken," New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday, in his first statements after the elections.

Greece made a dramatic political "volte-face" on Sunday with a landslide victory by center-right New Democracy (ND) party and its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, over incumbent SYRIZA, ending the first-ever leftist administration after four-and-a-half years in power and sending a once firebrand Alexis Tsipras to the opposition.