Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as Greece's new prime minister on January 26. Earlier, Tsipras was mandated by the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias to form the new government. The 40-year-old broke with tradition and took a secular oath rather than the Greek Orthodox religious ceremony with which prime ministers are usually sworn in.

Tsipras informed Papoulias that "following the results of yesterday's elections, I met with [Independent Greeks party leader Panos] Kammenos, who said he will support the new government. There is, therefore, the majority in Parliament, demanded by the Constitution."

He then went to the Athens district of Kaisariani, where he laid flowers at the National Resistance Memorial, honouring those executed there by the Nazi troops in 1944. Syriza won 36.3% of the vote in Sunday's snap elections but fell two seats short of the necessary majority in the 300-seat parliament to form a government on its own.