The second vote of the Presidential Elections that started at 12:00 in the Hellenic Parliament has concluded. Coalition government presidential candidate Stavros Dimas received a total of 168 votes.
This result means that he has not been elected in the second round of voting.
A total of 131 MPs voted “present” and one deputy, ANEL MP Maria Kollia-Tsarouha was absent.
In today’s vote, Stavros Dimas got eight votes more than those he received at the first round of elections on December 17.
The eight MPs who changed their vote to “yes” are: Vassilis Economou, Yannis Kourakos, Mika Iatridi, Panagiotis Melas, George Kasapidis, Costas Giovanopoulos, Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos and Stathis Boukouras.
The third and final round of the Presidential Election will take place on December 29.
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