Presidential election in Greece 2020

Standard of the President

The 2020 presidential election in Greece took place on January 22, 2020.

The independent Katerina Sakellaropoulou was the only candidate, was elected in the first ballot and sworn in as the country's first female president on March 13, 2020 .

legal framework

The election of the head of state is regulated in Article 32 of the Greek Constitution. A two-thirds majority was required in the first and second ballots; this corresponded to 200 votes out of 300. If the election had failed in the first two rounds, a number of votes of 180 would have been required in this case in the third attempt.

Candidate

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  Katerina Sakellaropoulou

The incumbent President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was not proposed for re-election by the government.

The vote

Composition of Parliament

Political party	Seats
New Democracy (ND)	158
Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras (SYRIZA)	86
Kinima Allagis (KINAL)	22nd
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)	15th
Elliniki Lysi (EL)	10
MeRA25	9
total	300

Election result

Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected in the first ballot.

Candidate	be right
Katerina Sakellaropoulou	261
Abstentions	33
Votes cast	294
No voting	6th
total	300

Web links

• Page of the President's Office

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greece swears in first female president , on zeit.de
2. ^ The Constitution of the Hellenic Republic , on Verassungen.eu
3. ↑ For the first time woman has been elected head of state of Greece , on sueddeutsche.de