ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country's second election in five weeks that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term. Jubilant supporters gathered outside party headquarters in Athens, cheering, clapping, setting off fireworks and waving blue and white party flags. “With today's electoral result, Greece opens a new, historic chapter in its course,” Mitsotakis said in a televised statement. Mitsotakis’ party was projected to win 158 of Parliament’s 300 seats, thanks to a change in the electoral law that grants the winning party bonus seats. It would be up to the party members, he said, to decide on his fate, and the course the party itself must now take.

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