Tassoulas: Nomination for president ‘a supreme honour and responsibility’; first vote to be held on January 25

Responding to news of his nomination as ruling New Democracy’s candidate for President of the Hellenic Republic, Parliament President Costas Tassoulas on Wednesday said that his selection by the prime minister “is both a supreme honour and responsibility.”

He simultaneously announced the immediate start of the procedures for the election of the President of the Republic, with the first vote to be held next Saturday, January 25.

Tassoulas took to the podium of the plenary session of the parliament to the warm applause of New Democracy MPs, immediately after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the party’s selection. He noted that he had chosen to make his statement to the National Delegation to honour the vote of the people of Ioannina, who have elected him as a deputy for 26 years.

“The proposal of the President of New Democracy and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the office of President of the Republic, is for me both a supreme honour and responsibility,” Tassoulas said.

“As we have already entered upon insistently turbulent and uncertain times – we see this both near us and more widely in the world – the safeguarding of our national unity and the harmonious operation of the state’s authorities become even more valuable conditions for the stability and prosperity of the country. And it is precisely these conditions, the unity and harmonious functioning of the institutions, that are mainly due to the mission that the Constitution entrusts to the President of the Republic and that’s why the oath [the president] gives here in the Parliament includes all the above, along with the defence of our national sovereignty and of the Greek people’s rights,” he said.

“As Parliament President, I am immediately setting in motion the procedures for the election of the President of the Hellenic Republic, with the first date for a roll-call vote on Saturday, 25 January,” Tassoulas announced.

source ANA-MPA

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