At 10:30 a.m., the roll-call vote for the election of a new President of the Hellenic Republic will take place in the plenary session of the Parliament.
The only candidate is Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, current president of the Council of State, who is expected to receive - for the first time - the votes of MPs from three parties, namely ND, SYRIZA and the Movement for Change. The deputies of the KKE, the Hellenic Solution and the MERA25 will vote against, declaring "present".
Ms. Sakellaropoulou, who was nominated for the top state post by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will be elected, unexpectedly, by the first ballot, which requires 200 positive votes, according to the recently revised Article 32 of the Constitution.
Then, as reported by Euronews, the Speaker of Parliament will go to the Council of State in order to announce the result of the vote to the new President of the Republic, who succeeds Professor Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
The profile of Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou
The first woman who managed 15 years ago to climb to the highest level of the Greek Supreme Administrative Court, the Council of State, was to become the first Greek woman to become the first citizen of the country, succeeding Prokopis Pavlopoulos in the Presidency of the Republic.
Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou's colleagues from the field of Justice do not stand, however, on the fact that she is a woman but on the fact that she was a remarkable court clerk who they estimate with certainty that she will fulfill her new duties. That is why they claim that it is a very successful choice for the highest state office.
He was born and raised in Thessaloniki. Divorced, mother of one child, lives in the center of Athens and specifically in an apartment complex in Metaxourgeio. However, it derives its origin from remote Thrace. From the settlement of Stavroupoli, a few kilometers north of Xanthi. Every year, as a child, she spent most of her summer vacation there with her father, also a supreme judge who had participated in the composition of the Special Court for the Koskotas case.
Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou maintained a Facebook account and in fact was very active on it, but she deactivated it after she was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic. In it she often uploaded posts with photos from her travels, her favorite pets but also moments with friends, colleagues, her daughter and her partner. He maintained and renewed him normally even while he was the president of the CoE. But now no one can look for him.
Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou will take office as soon as the term of Prokopis Pavlopoulos expires and for the next five (at least) years she will be the supreme ruler. For the first time in the history of Greece, female…
Source: politis