He said his first, urgent priority will be to launch talks on reducing the country`s crippling debt burden and boost the country`s battered banking system.
Tsipras, 41, heads a left-led coalition following last Sunday`s election.
He called the snap polls seven months into his first mandate, after hardline left-wingers in his Syriza party rebelled against a policy U-turn that saw Greece signing a third international bailout — accompanied by new austerity measures.
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