The leftist, anti-austerity Syriza party has swept to victory in Greece. Syriza won 149 seats in the 300-seat Parliament, two short of an absolute majority. This marks the first time since the economic crisis in 2009 that a member of the 19-nation eurozone will be led by a party rejecting German-backed austerity. The head of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, will become Greece’s new prime minister.

Alexis Tsipras: “Greece is turning a page. Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity. It is leaving behind the fear and the autocracy. It is leaving behind five years of humiliation and pain. … Today, there are no winners and losers. Today, Greece’s elite and Greece’s oligarchs were defeated. … Our victory is also a victory for all the people of Europe who are fighting against austerity that is destroying our common European future.”