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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tsipras Sworn in as Greek Prime Minister<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=600 height=340 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D03957.CBD55C40" alt="Description: Alexis Tsipras will begin his new role as Greek prime minister Monday."></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alexis Tsipras will begin his new role as Greek prime minister Monday. | Photo: Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Published 26 January 2015 (2 hours 47 minutes ago) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=27 height=23 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D03957.CBD55C40" alt="Description: Coments"></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Tsipras-Sworn-in-as-Greek-Prime-Minister-20150126-0012.html#comsup" title=Coments><span style='color:blue'>+</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The former opposition party won 149 seats, just two seats short of a parliamentary majority.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Syriza party, has been sworn in as Greek Prime Minister after the left-wing party secured a historic <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Updates-Syriza-Wins-Historic-Greek-Victory-20150125-0010.html"><span style='color:blue'>victory in the general election</span></a> Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The former opposition party won 149 seats, just two seats short of a parliamentary majority, meaning that Syriza will form a coalition with the right-wing, but anti-austerity Independent Greeks party.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tsipras succeeds Antonis Samaras of the New Democracy party, who imposed harsh austerity measures on the country, leading to what members of Syriza called a “humanitarian crisis.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/telesuragenda/Greek-Elections-20150121-0015.html"><span style='color:blue'>Read more: What is at Stake in the Greek Elections?</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>On accepting victory Sunday night, Tsipras said, “Our victory is simultaneously a victory for all the people of Europe who fight against austerity which destroys our common European future."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Elsewhere in Europe, progressive political <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/World-Greets-Syriza-Victory-in-Greece-20150125-0017.html"><span style='color:blue'>parties took Syriza's victory</span></a> as encouragement for the future of the left-wing across the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spanish left-wing party Podemos, said “we will celebrate the change in Europe and the change in Spain and Greece on Jan. 31” at a forthcoming rally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>