May 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, has summoned for the last time the leaders of the parties with the most votes in Sunday’s elections to confirm that there is no room to form a government and to inform them that she will instruct the current head of the Court of Auditors, Ioannis Sarmas, to serve as interim prime minister until new elections.
The Constitution establishes that if after three attempts no candidate manages to form a government, an interim period is opened in which a technical administration is installed led by a representative of the judiciary, in this case Sarmas, who has already been summoned. to the seat of the Presidency.
Sakellaropoulou, who has decided to take the step after two days of failed orders, has confirmed this procedure in a meeting attended this Wednesday by the leader of New Democracy and current prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the heads of SYRIZA and the Movement Panhellenic Socialist (PASOK), Alexis Tsipras Nikos Androulakis, among others.
The president has yet to make the date of this new appointment with the polls official, although the main political leaders have already suggested that it be as soon as possible, with express references to June 25. For these second elections, a new seat distribution system will be applied, by virtue of which the premium is recovered for the party with the most votes, which will have an easier time obtaining an absolute majority.
New Democracy came close to this majority last Sunday, after winning more than 40 percent of the vote. SYRIZA, the second party with the most support, had to settle for around half, a “painful blow” as acknowledged by Tsipras, who aspires to weave a left-wing coalition.
