Following Greece’s failure to form a coalition in parliament last weekend, a caretaker prime minister has been appointed to lead the country to a repeat vote.
According to a report by Ekathimerini, the care taker prime minister was chosen on Wednesday by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Sakellaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas, a senior judicial official who is president of the Hellenic Court of Audit, one of the country’s three senior courts.
“It is a constitutional obligation and at the same time my duty as a citizen to accept,” Sarmas told Sakellaropoulou, according to Ekathimerini.
Under Greece’s electoral system, the winner of a second vote following an inconclusive first election can receive up to 50 bonus seats for every point it wins beyond 25%.
A repeat election would be held on June 25 after Alexis Tsipras, the main opposition leader of left-wing party SYRIZA, rejected an invitation to try and form Greece’s next government.
Source: Ekathimerini
