Greek Prime Minister-elect Alexis Tsipras has reaffirmed his dominance on the political landscape, but now faces the daunting task of building consensus in a fractious society traumatised by years of austerity, local media said on Monday. On the morning after Tsipras stormed to victory in snap parliamentary elections, Monday editions of Greek newspapers said Tsipras was given a 'second chance' to see through reforms and take ownership of a multi-billion euro bailout with lenders. Bagging 35.5 percent of the vote, Syriza, which was catapulted to prominence in the aftermath of Greece's crippling economic crisis post-2010, has proven it is not a passing fancy of Greeks in a knee-jerk reaction to years of hardship, they said.
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