ND leader Evangelos Meimarakis met with Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou, who is the third pillar of the Greek constitutional system, and requested that she urge party leaders to meet and form a government from the current parliament in order to avert snap elections.

Konstantopoulou, on her part, expressed her annoyance regarding the fact that she was ‘bypassed’ by not being informed on the snap elections, as she claimed.

Meimarakis, the main opposition leader, met with Konstantopoulou following his meeting with President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos earlier the same day, where he received a mandate to form a government.

He added that he intended to invite the Greek PM to his office and ask him why he resigned and did not opt to go for a vote of confidence. Meimarakis underlined that if a coalition government was to be formed from the current parliament without Tsipras as the head, he would back SYRIZA MP and Vice President Yannis Dragasakis, as he considered him a serious and trustworthy politician who is knowledgeable of finances.

He warned that the government should refrain from  doing anything out of its constitutional limits, as it was a caretaker government as of yesterday.