Prokopis Pavlopoulos, a former minister of the center right "Nea Dimokratia" partywill be proposed by the Greek government as the new President of the Greek Republic, as the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced.
The parliament will vote tomorrow evening to elect the new President of the Republic. He is expected to be elected with a large majority since his own party will also vote for him. Even if this doesn't happen, according to the constitution, the president of the Republic can be elected at the third vote with a simple majority.
Speaking at the Parliamentary Group of his party, Tsipras said that what is needed now is national unity. This is why Greece need a president who is accepted by a large part of the political spectrum. Nea Dimokratia, the party of Pavlopoulos, lost the elections on January 25.
Prokopis Pavlopoulos is a professor of CostitutionalLaw and a politician since 1989. He is considered a moderate in the New Democracy party, a former advisor of President Konstantinos Karamanlis and an ally of the former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanllis.
Elected MP in 1996 he participated to the government of Xenophon Zolotas (1989-90) and served as Minister of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation in the government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis between 2004-2007. After the electoral victory of New Democracy in 2007 he served a Minister of Public Order. During his service as Interior Minister he tried to renovate the Immigration Law in a modern and humanistic direction.