Greek Lawmakers Elect Country’s New President in Fourth Attempt
- Only a simple majority was needed in latest round of voting
- Constantine Tassoulas is Greek premier’s pick for president
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Greek lawmakers elected the country’s new president in a fourth round of voting.
Constantine Tassoulas, a close ally of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his pick for the role, secured 160 votes and was elected in Wednesday’s vote, when he only needed a simple majority of 151 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament. In the previous three rounds he also received 160 votes mostly from Mitsotakis’s center-right New Democracy party, which has 156 members of parliament, but failed to get elected as the threshold was higher.