In the presence of the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and interim Prime Minister Ioannis Sharma, the new but short-lived Greek Parliament of the ITH presiding parliamentary period, which resulted from the 21 May national elections, was sworn in. Today.

The convocation of the inauguration of the new Greek Parliament will take place at 18:00 under the chairmanship of the First Vice-President of the Parliament, Mr. Nikitas Kaklamanis, who will be assisted by four temporary secretaries, who are the youngest MPs from the party.

First, Mr. Kaklamanis will read the agenda, write down the names of the 300 elected deputies in the minutes, and inform the Chamber about the letters that the political leaders sent to the Bureau, about which of the three seats in parliament they won. elected, they decided to keep.

Immediately, Mr. Kaklamanis will invite the Provisional First Secretary of the Parliament to accompany the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Jerome, and the members of the Holy Synod to the plenary hall to perform the prescribed consecration.

Mr. Kaklamanis will then invite the deputies who wish to stand and, in the presence of the Archbishop and his pontifical retinue, take the oath provided for in Article 59 of the Constitution, which is as follows:

“I swear on the name of the Holy, Equal and Indivisible Trinity to be faithful to the Fatherland and the democratic state, to obey the Constitution and laws, and to conscientiously fulfill my duties.”

The archbishop will conclude the ceremony, sign the appropriate minutes, and the presiding officer will call the temporary first secretary of parliament to remove the high priests from the hall.

After that, Mr. Kaklamanis will invite the Muslim deputies to take an oath on the Koran, and then the deputies who wish to take a political oath will stand.

The First Vice-President of the Parliament will close the ceremonial session by urging the House to authorize the Bureau to ratify the protocol, asking them tomorrow, Monday, at 10.30, according to the agenda, to appear for the election of the President of the Parliament.

Deputies will proceed to the hall of Parliament, which they will be shown before leaving, to sign the swearing-in protocol and receive the relevant documents to complete the swearing-in process.

When the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, arrives at the building for the swearing-in ceremony of the parliamentarians, she will be met by the Speaker of the Parliament, Konstantinos Tasoulas, and will first be escorted to the Office of the President of the Parliament until the meeting begins. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Jerome, and his priestly retinue, respectively, will be welcomed into the building by the First Vice-President of the Parliament, Nikitas Kaklamanis.

The President of the Republic will oversee the swearing-in of the “300” of Parliament from the first row of positions of members of the Plenum. Next to her and in the rest of the seats will be those former prime ministers, former chairmen of the Greek parliament, senior judicial and state officials who wish to attend. Representatives of foreign Churches and confessions will sit in an additional row of seats, under the seats of officials.

Acting Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas and members of the current government will oversee the swearing in of Parliament from ministerial seats.

Many ambassadors and diplomatic delegations of foreign states have been invited and will take part in the solemn meeting of deputies who will observe the swearing in of deputies from the diplomatic galleries.

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.

Source: RES-IPE