Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party, which eked out a narrow victory in Sunday's crucial election, has told investors they can be calm now.

"First of all I feel great relief for what happened. They (investors) should be reassured," Samaras said in an interview for CNBC as he left a news conference on the election night.

"What is happening today is we made sure with the vote of the Greek people that we are anchored within the euro; that we believe Europe can stand together with Greece, with every country that believes in the European orientation, as we do as the Greek people do," he said.

Samaras said it is important that the new government do its best to boost social cohesion and development while honoring his countries commitments.

"But at the same time allow for growth oriented policies that will allow us to recover," said Samaras

"If we don't...the unemployment levels have reached such incredible...50% numbers for the youth for instance, that will disable anyone to do anything," he added.

"We have to allow for the recovery at the same time we have to be stable within Europe," said Samaras.

Greek voters had gone to the polls on Sunday following inconclusive elections in May.

With 99.9% of ballots counted, interior ministry results put New Democracy on 29.7% of the vote (129 seats), Syriza on 26.9% (71) and the socialist Pasok on 12.3% (33).

There are 300 seats in parliament.

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