The fourth vote for the election of the new President of the Republic, in view of the end of the term of office of the current President, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, on March 13, 2025, is being held today in the plenary session of the Parliament.
In today's (10:00 AM) roll-call vote, a majority of 151 MPs is required, a number that has already been exceeded in previous votes by the ND nominee, former Speaker of the House Konstantinos Tasoulas. In the first and second votes, a two-thirds majority (200) was required, while in the third vote, a three-fifths majority (180) was required.
In these votes, Mr. Tasoulas was voted for by 160 MPs, the PASOK-nominated Tasos Giannitsis by 34 MPs, the SYRIZA-PS nominated Louka Katseli by 40 MPs, and the KO Niki nominated K. Kyriakou by 14 MPs. In the first vote, 297 MPs had voted and 49 were registered as “present” and 3 as absentees, while in the second and third votes, all 300 MPs had voted, and 52 were registered as “present”.
After the announcement of the result, the Speaker of the House Nikitas Kaklamanis will go to the office of Konstantinos Tasoulas to announce that he will be the next President of the Republic. Statements from Mr. Kaklamanis and Mr. Tasoulas will follow.
After a joint meeting of the Parliamentary Group and the Political Bureau of the New Left, it was decided that the party's MPs would not participate in the vote as a sign of disapproval of K. Tasoulas.
In the morning, before the start of the meeting, the president of the New Left, Alexis Charitsis, will make a statement in the peristyle.
Source: ertnews
