{"id":20020,"date":"2023-04-22T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T09:54:35","slug":"greek-president-approves-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek president approves PM request for May 21 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (Reuters) &#8211;     Greece&#8217;s president approved a request by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday to dissolve parliament and hold elections on May 21, as the country gears for a vote that is unlikely to produce an outright winner.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis announced the election date during a cabinet meeting in late March, a few months before his term officially ends in July. On Saturday, he told President Katerina Sakellaropoulou that parliament will be dissolved on April 23.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope we have a calm and fruitful pre-election period, for the good of the country,&#8221; Sakellaropoulou told the conservative premier, kicking off a four-week political campaigning period. <\/p>\n<p>The election will be held under a proportional voting system and opinion polls show neither Mitsotakis&#8217; New Democracy party nor the main opposition, the leftist Syriza party, are likely to secure the votes needed for an absolute parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis said that he hoped for full participation in the election.<\/p>\n<p>If the parties elected cannot form a coalition government, a second vote will be held in early July.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Editing by Mark Heinrich)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/greek-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis-meets-with-greek-president-katerina\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L030-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L030-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/greek-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis-meets-with-greek-president-katerina-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L033-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L033-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/greek-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis-meets-with-greek-president-katerina-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L031-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L031-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/greek-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis-meets-with-greek-president-katerina-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L032-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L032-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/greek-president-approves-pm\/greek-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis-meets-with-greek-president-katerina-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L034-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3L034-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (Reuters) &#8211; Greece&#8217;s president approved a request by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday to dissolve parliament and hold elections on May 21, as the country gears for a vote that is unlikely to produce an outright winner. 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