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Tsipras’ first task as re-elected prime minister will be to implement more tough austerity measures demanded by creditors in return for a new €86bn rescue package.

Alexis Tsipras the leader of left-wing Syriza party waves to his supporters after the election results at the party’s main electoral center in Athens, Sunday, September 20, 2015.

Leader of the Greek radical-left Syriza party Alexis Tsipras waves to supporters as he arrives at the main party’s election headquarters in central Athens on September 20, 2015.

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning a second general election in less than nine months. His Syriza party will form a coalition government of 155 seats with its old partner, the Independent Greeks which...

A “vindicated” Alexis Tsipras hailed what he called a “clear victory” for his left-wing Syriza party in the Greek parliamentary elections in front of crowds of jubilant supporters in Athens on Monday adding that his party now had a “crystal clear...

The third largest number of votes was for the Golden Dawn, the neo-fascist party, which was polling at 7.3 percent, about 1 percentage point higher than in January’s election.

Tsipras, who’d resigned as prime minister a month ago, asked voters for a second chance, and against all odds, he got it.

Earlier, Tsipras’ chief rival, conservative New Democracy Party leader Vangelis Meimarakis, congratulated the victor and urged quick formation of a new government that Tsipras said will include the nationalist Independent Greeks Party.

Syriza plans to govern in coalition with the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, the partner Tsipras chose after winning the last general election in January.

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning the country’s fifth election in six years. “We won’t recover from the struggle by magic, but it can happen with hard work”, he added.

Voting has ended in Greece and a key exit poll shows the leftist party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leading its main conservative rival.

“In Europe today, Greece and the Greek people are synonymous with resistance and dignity, and this struggle will be continued together for another four years”, Tsipras said to cheering crowds, standing in a central Athens square.

Yes. It’s bad. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the former energy minister and leader of the “Left Platform” faction in Syriza, is forming a new movement aimed at overturning the bailout.

The country is due to contribute some 10.1 billion euros ($11.14 billion) of the 86 billion-euro package for Greece.

The approval comes after six hours of talks to nail down the tough and far-reaching reforms Athens must implement in return. Unable to borrow on the worldwide markets, another bailout is all that stands between Greece and a disorderly default on its debts – as soon as next...