Greek caretaker Prime Minister sworn in, to head government until new national elections

Senior judge Ioannis Sarmas has been sworn in as Greece’s caretaker Prime Minister who will head the country until new national elections are held in about a month. Sarmas, 66, took over Thursday from center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections on May 21 but was unable to form a government. Sarmas will head a 16-member caretaker government, in which a former Greek ambassador to the U.S., Vassilios Kaskarelis, will be Foreign MInister. The key finance ministry will be headed by economist Theodore Pelagidis, deputy governor of Greece’s central bank.