Aided by opposition parties, PM faces low risk over bland choice of president

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Mitsotakis, New Democracy, Parliament, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA
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Although Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under attack from most opposition parties for putting forward New Democracy veteran Kostas Tasoulas as his candidate for the Greek presidency, the ruling party’s rivals have undermined their arguments by also making uninspired proposals for who should succeed Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Since announcing Tasoulas, who subsequently stepped down as parliamentary speaker, as the government’s candidate, only far-right Spartiates have expressed support for the nominee, who has served as a New Democracy MP since 2000. Spartiates only have fiv...

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