The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, in a post on X, congratulates in Greek the new President of the Republic Constantine Tassoulas, on his election.
“Congratulations to Constantine Tassoulas on his election to the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic. Thank you for our excellent cooperation so far from the position of President of the Hellenic Parliament. I look forward to its continuation through your new role,” Metsola said.
Constantine Tassoulas elected President of the Republic, with 160 votes
Constantine Tassoulas was on Wednesday elected President of the Hellenic Republic, with 160 votes.
After a roll-call vote, and out of 274 MPs present, 160 MPs voted for the former president of the Hellenic Parliament, while main opposition PASOK candidate Tasos Giannitsis received 34 votes, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance candidate Louka Katseli 29 votes and NIKI candidate Konstantinos Kyriakou received 14 votes.
A total of 39 MPs abstained but were recorded as “present”, while 24 MPs from the New Left, Plefsi Eleftherias and the independent members of the Movement for Change were abstent from the session as a sign of protest against Tassoulas’ candidacy.
Tassoulas’s swearing-in ceremony will take place on March 13, 2025, when the term of office of current President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou is ending.
A lawyer by profession, Constantine Tassoulas was born in Ioannina in 1959, is married and has two children. Since 2000, he has been elected as a member of parliament with the New Democracy party. In 2007, he was appointed Deputy Minister of National Defence, in 2010 he was elected Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group, in 2014 he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports until January 2015, while in 2018 he was appointed General Rapporteur of the New Democracy party for the Constitutional Revision.
In 2019, he was elected President of the Hellenic Parliament, a position to which he was re-elected in May 2023 and for a third time in July 2023.
Source: ANA-MPA
