×
GreekEnglish

×
  • Politics
  • Diaspora
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Cooking
Wednesday
24
Dec 2025
weather symbol
Athens 14°C
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • World
  • Diaspora
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Mediterranean Cooking
  • Weather
Contact follow Protothema:
Powered by Cloudevo
> Politics

Two SYRIZA MPs say ‘no’ to Avramopoulos for president

Last person nominated for Greece's thoroughly figurehead president failed to get 180 out 300 votes from MPs in Parliament

Newsroom February 2 06:10

Αt least two ruling SYRIZA deputies on Monday took to cyberspace to air their objection to their radical leftist party nominating EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos for Greece’s new president.

MPs Dimitris Kodelas and Ioanna Gaitani said expressed opposition with a candidate emanating from the right or center-right, as they said.

The last person nominated to be Greece’s thoroughly figurehead president was former EU Commissioner Stavros Dimas, who failed to receive 180 out 300 votes from MPs in Parliament. That failure, credited to the previous Samaras ND government, led to snap election that Samaras duly lost.

Ask me anything

Explore related questions

> More Politics

Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news

See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr

> Latest Stories

How to avoid the flu and respiratory infections

December 24, 2025

How chefs achieve the crispy turkey skin everyone loves

December 24, 2025

Unexpected interruption during Fidan press conference in Syria: Statements ended abruptly – Damascus apologizes

December 24, 2025

Christmas carols were sung to Prime Minister Mitsotakis by students

December 24, 2025

Ten monasteries in Greece: Sacred sanctuaries of faith and history with the gaze of nature

December 24, 2025

Giorgos Petzetakis: Debts in Athens, business and luxury life in the US despite international warrants

December 24, 2025

Greek flight attendant among the dead in Falcon 50 crash in Turkey, where Libyan general was killed

December 24, 2025

George Michael: A Greek singer reimagines the song he wrote for the early death of Anselmo Feleppa

December 24, 2025
All News

> World

Unexpected interruption during Fidan press conference in Syria: Statements ended abruptly – Damascus apologizes

A technical issue led to the early conclusion of the press conference, according to Turkish officials

December 24, 2025

Aircraft carrying Libya’s Army Chief sends SOS, requests emergency landing before crashing

December 24, 2025

The sarcophagus over Chernobyl will not withstand a direct hit by a missile or drone, says the director of the

December 23, 2025

Russia and the US have not yet found solutions to “troublesome” issues in their relations, Moscow says

December 23, 2025

Learjet crashes in Ankara: Libya’s Chief of the General Staff, Mohammed Al-Haddad, dead

December 23, 2025
Homepage
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY COOKIES POLICY TERM OF USE
Powered by Cloudevo
Copyright © 2025 Πρώτο Θέμα