The full Greek official election results as released by the Interior Ministry gave SYRIZA 36.34% and 149 seats. New Democracy followed second with 27.81%, translating into 76 seats in parliament.
As expected Golden Dawn won 6.28% and 17 seats, while newly formed party Potami, gained 6.05% and 17 seats in the new Parliament. KKE won 15 seats with a 5.47%, ANEL 13 seats with 4.75% of the votes. PASOK, though, only got 4.68% and 13 seats.
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as Prime Minister before the President of Republic Karolos Papoulias, on Monday 26 January at 16:00. Half an hour earlier, Papoulias gave Tsipras the mandate to form the new government, after agreeing to create an unexpected coalition with the right-wing party ANEL, promoting an anti-bailout and austerity measures agenda. There was in fact a double swearing-in ceremony for the new cabinet. The first, included Orthodox priests for the right-wing ministers, the second though was a clearly civil oath, without priests for the Syriza Ministers.
At the age of 40, Alexis Tsipras becomes the youngest Greek prime minister in 150 years and SYRIZA becomes the first left wing party in power, if one considers the previous PASOK governments as centre left. Meanwhile, Greek bank shares started falling heavily for fear of a lengthy clash between Germany and the other euro one countries. Shares in The National Bank of Greece, Piraeus Bank and Eurobank Ergasias fell by as much as 12 per cent, while the main ATG index closed 3.7 per cent lower.
In spite of the clouds hovering over Tsipras’ win, the new SYRIZA government announced the composition of its first cabinet, on Tuesday as follows:
Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras
Government Vice-President: Yiannis Dragasakis
Interior – Administration Reconstruction Minister: Nikos Voutsis
Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform: George Katrougalos
Alternate Minister for Civil Protection: Yiannis Panousis
Alternate Minister for Migration Policy: Tasia Christodoulopoulou
Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister: Panagiotis Lafazanis
Alternate Minister for the Environment: Yiannis Tsironis
Alternate Minister for Rural Development: Vangelis Apostolou
Deputy Minister for Rural Development: Panagiotis Sgouridis
Finance Minister: Yanis Varoufakis
Alternate Minister: Nadia Valavani
Alternate Minister: Dimitris Mardas
Education, Culture and Religious Affairs Minister: Aristidis Baltas
Alternate Minister for Culture: Nikos Xydakis
Alternate Minister for Education: Tasos Kourakis
Alternate Minister for Research and Innovation: Costas Fotakis
Deputy Minister for Sports: Stavros Kontonis
Labour Minister: Panos Skourletis
Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity: Theano Fotiou
Deputy Minister for Combatting Unemployment: Rania Antonopoulou
Health and Social Insurance Minister: Panagiotis Kouroumblis
Alternate Minister for Health: Andreas Xanthos
Alternate Minister for Social Insurance: Dimitris Stratoulis
Foreign Minister: Nikos Kotzias
Alternate Minister for European Affairs: Nikos Chountis
Alternate Minister for International Economic Relations: Efklidis Tsakalotos
National Defence Minister: Panos Kammenos
Alternate Minister: Costas Isychos
Deputy Minister: Nikos Toskas
Deputy Minister for Macedonia-Thrace: Maria Kollia-Tsarouha
Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism Minister: George Stathakis
Alternate Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks: Christos Spirtzis
Alternate Shipping Minister: Thodoris Dritsas
Alternate Tourism Minister: Elena Kountoura
Justice Minister: Nikos Paraskevopoulos
Minister of State for Combatting Corruption: Panagiotis Nikoloudis
Minister of State for Coordinating Government Operations: Alekos Flambouraris
Deputy Minister: Terens Quick
Minister of State: Nikos Pappas
Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government spokesman: Gavriil Sakellaridis
Proposed Parliament President: Zoi Constantopoulou
As seen, the new cabinet includes a respectable number of junior ministers.
*More updates in Neos Kosmos’ Saturday print edition.