The recruit’s swearing-in is complete. Hellenic Parliament in the presence of the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Acting Prime Minister John Sharma.

Frame by frame oath

Election of the Speaker of Parliament

On Monday, at 10:30 am, Parliament will convene for the “election of the President of the Greek Parliament”.

The meeting will be chaired by the interim first vice-speaker of the parliament. Nikitas Kaklamanis. Initially, he will read the letters of the chairmen of the parliamentary groups regarding the persons they propose as the new chairman of the parliament, since the nomination of a candidate is not allowed.

ND leader and president of the first party of parliamentary power, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced in a letter to parliament that he was nominating the current speaker of parliament, Konstantinos Tassoulas, for this position.

The new chairman of the parliament will be elected by roll call and must receive an absolute majority of votes from the total number of deputies. If 151 “yes” votes are not obtained, the vote is repeated and elected by a relative majority of votes.

Mr. Kaklamanis will announce the results of the vote and invite the audited Speaker of the House to take his seat.

Then on Monday, and after a short break, the plenary session will meet again to hold roll-call elections for vice-presidents, secretaries and deans of the chambers.

The first three vice presidents of the chamber will be elected by the ND parliamentary group, while the third, fourth and fifth vice presidents will be elected respectively by the opposition parties to ensure proportional representation in the bureau.

For the positions of the first three vice-presidents of the parliament, the ND will propose deputies Nikita Kaklamanis, Charalambos Athanasios and Athanassios Buras, who were also vice-presidents in the previous parliament. Deputy SYRIZA Meropi Tsufi. PASOK-KINAL again has Odysseus Konstantinopoulos, just like the KKE has MP Giorgos Lambroulis. Hellenic Solution will nominate Konstantinos Chitas to the position of vice president to which he is eligible.

After the completion of the elections of the Presidium of the Parliament, the new Chairman of the Parliament announces a break in the session. The end of the meeting, which at the same time means the end of the term of the first and only session of the ITH of the presiding parliamentary period.

The President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, will then issue a presidential decree dissolving Parliament, announcing a national election on June 25, 2023, and setting a date for the swearing-in of the presiding parliamentary Democratic Party. The presidential decree will be signed by Acting Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas and members of the current Council of Ministers. The PD will be sent to the Hellenic Parliament to be sealed by the Parliamentary Guard.

Two-day parliament for the second time

The Parliament of the Greeks with a term of “two” days is already the second case in the post-political annals. The last time it was the parliament of May 2012, the 14th presiding parliamentary period, and after the previous elections, the possibility of forming a government did not arise.