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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras took an oath as Prime Minister and received a mandate to form a government. Before President Karolos Papoulias, he swore in his honour and conscience and stated that he will respect the constitution and laws and his actions will always be in favour of the Greek people.

Alexis Tsipras is the first Greek Prime Minister to take a civil, not a religious, oath. The members of the new cabinet will also take a civil oath, but the Secretary of the Holy Synod will attend the ceremony to be able to perform the religious rituals in the event that some of the ministers want to take a religious oath.

Immediately after the oath-taking ceremony, Alexis Tsipras put flowers on the monument to those members of the Greek National Resistance who were killed during the World War II, in the Kessariani neighbourhood.

Half an hour later, he crossed the threshold of the government residence Maximou to conduct a protocol meeting with the former Prime Minister. According to the Greek media, Antonis Samaras was not there and he had sent the secretary of his office to "pass the baton" to Greece’s first left-wing Prime Minister.

At 7:00 pm, Alexis Tsipras will meet with leader of Potami party Stavros Theodorakis to discuss the possibility of it supporting the new cabinet. It is worth noting that earlier today Theodorakis had defined the SYRIZA - Independent Greeks coalition as a "bad sign".

The composition of the new Greek government will be announced tomorrow and the ministers will take an oath by the end of the day.

Alexis Tsipras was born in 1974. He has been a member of various leftist organizations since he was a student, the largest among them being the youth organization of the Communist Party of Greece. His first step in big politics was in 2006 when he was a candidate for mayor of Athens with the support of the Synaspismos coalition of leftist parties. Two years later Tsipras won the internal party elections and led the party. In 2009, he was elected MP for the first time as the leader of the radical left coalition SYRIZA and in the European elections in May 2014 he was the candidate of the European Left for president of the European Commission.

Alexis Tsipras is a graduate civil engineer and graduated from the Athens Polytechnic School. In 2002, he received a master's degree in "Urban and regional planning."

Greece’s new Prime Minister has two children from his relationship with Peristera Baziana with whom he has concluded a contract for cohabitation.