Former Greek interior minister Pavlopoulos elected as new president

  19 February 2015    Read: 987
Former Greek interior minister Pavlopoulos elected as new president
Prokopis Pavlopoulos` candidacy was supported by 180 parliamentarians out of 300, enough to be elected in the first round of voting, Sputnik reported.
Currently, the election is still ongoing.

The 64-year-old center-right politician was a member of the New Democracy party and served as Greek Interior Minister from 2007-2009. He was nominated on Tuesday by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The Greek parliament has failed to elect a new president three times. The last attempt was made on December 29, 2014 and in line with the Greek Constitution, a general election was held in the country within a month of the failed vote.

On January 25, the left-wing Syriza party that promised to revise Greece`s austerity measures, won snap parliamentary elections.

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