A descendant of a long-standing political family. Get to know the next Prime Minister of Greece

Faithful manners

"A painful page is coming today." These were the words of the leader of the new Greek Democracy Party, Kyriakos Mitsutakis, after announcing victory in the legislative elections on Sunday and ending four years of leftist rule led by Alexis Tsipras.

The talk of Mitsutakis does not appear to be a painful page that stems from personal conviction. It was common to a large portion of the Greeks who suffered from austerity policies exercised by Tsipras and their repercussions on their economic and social situation.

After a mandate of more than four years, voters for the youngest Greek prime minister, from the hard-line 150-year-old left, have not forgiven the promises he did not respect or the EU's tough taxes to avoid the country's exit from the European bloc.

After the end of the left-wing rule, the Greeks hope to breathe a sigh of relief and that their country will be able to recover, having lived through years of stifling crisis.

Economy and Politics
Although the economic factor has a role in the arrival of the leader of the Conservatives to power, the political side is no less important, especially since the fifties Mitsutakis descendant of a political family par excellence.

With his victory, Mitsutakis brings the family name back to the top of the hierarchy of power, to be in the same position as his father, former Prime Minister Costantinos Mitsutakis, who was one of the most important figures of Greek political life in recent decades.

The father, who died in May 2017, was the godfather of one of the country's largest political families and former leader of the New Right Democratic Party (1984-1993). He retired from politics in 2004 at the age of 85 after taking a seat in Greece's longest-serving parliament .

Blood Link
It is not only the blood link that brings together the Mitsutakis family, but also the politics. The son inherited the presidency of the new Democratic Party from his father to receive it officially in early 2016 after he led his leadership since 2006.

His older sister, Dora Bakoyannis, entered the arena of political life in her wide door. She held many positions, including the Ministry of Culture and the Parliament, but the most important one was the foreign ministry and the mayor of Athens.

The family was not in the best of circumstances when she married her son Kyriakos in March 1968. She was placed under house arrest by the military junta, which declared that the father was an undesirable person and imprisoned him, making the first months of his life a "political prison" .

However, the family managed to escape from this prison to Turkey and then moved to Paris after a period, and could not return until 1974 when the restoration of democratic rule.

He graduated from the Faculty of Athena in 1984. He joined Harvard University and received a BA in Social Studies and a Master's degree from Stanford University in International Relations in 1993.

History and Present
But the long-standing political history of the next prime minister and his family may not be enough. His tenure as Minister of Administrative Reform under the last conservative government of Antones Samaras between 2012 and 2014 has made him critical of his opponents.

Tsipras Metsutakis was accused of "catastrophic" mismanagement that resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and the collapse of a large number of companies.

These accusations may not be very important to Mitsutakis, who pledged to "revive" Greece, "revive the economy and leave the crisis behind us" after a "painful" period the country experienced under the left-wing government of Tsipras and his party, Syriza.

Mitsutakis also promised to secure "better" jobs through growth, foreign investment, tax cuts and overcoming obstacles to companies.

Having experienced a severe financial crisis since 2010, it has needed financial support from its EU partners three times. The successor is expected to restore prosperity to the people by making life better by opening up new prospects for growth and returning 400,000 immigrants to Greece.

"I want to see this people thrive again, and I see the return of the boys who have left." This promise may be true. In 2015, Tsipras would have made his way to power, pledging to give up his austerity plans. Ministers.