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Nikos Voutsis voted in as new Greek President (pics)

Author: newsroom | Published: October 4, 2015

181 MPs voted for Nikos Voutsis as Greek President

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) MP Nikos Voutsis was elected new Parliamentary president on Sunday by 181 MPs. 113 deputies cast a blank vote and 3 ballots were rendered invaled. There were three abstentions.

He was voted in by the 153 deputies of SYRIZA-ANEL (Independent ANEL Greeks leader Panos Kammenos and Nikos Nikolopoulos were missing) as well as 9 deputies from the Union of Centrists and 28 from other parties.

Voutsis takes over from controversial Greek president Zoe Konstantopoulou. He was born in 1951 in Athens and is a civil engineer. He served as interior minister following SYRIZA’s election win on January 25.

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