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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-09-27
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[01] Dimitris Sioufas elected new President of Parliament
[01] Dimitris Sioufas elected new President of Parliament
Dimitris Sioufas of the ruling New Democracy (ND) party was elected as
the new president of the 300-member unicameral Hellenic Parliament on
Thursday with 158 votes for and 141 blank votes, while only one MP was
absent.
Sioufas, an MP from Karditsa, was the candidate nominated by prime
minister Costas Karamanlis for the parliament presidency.
Greece's new parliament, which emerged from the September 16 general
elections and was sworn in on Wednesday, convened shortly before noon
on Thursday to elect the House's new president.
The parliament plenary will convene again at 6:00 Thursday afternoon to
elect the House's five parliamentary vice-presidents, which are
distributed among the three top parties, with the first three
parliamentary vice-presidential positions going to the ruling ND party,
the fourth position going to main opposition PASOK and the fifth going
to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
On Friday, a three-day debate on the new government's policy statements
begins, to be read out by Prime Minister Karamanlis, with the
discussions ending at midnight Sunday, followed by a vote of confidence
for the new government.
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