Greek PM’s proposal for president attracts broad consensus

Within a day of nominating Council of State President Katerina Sakellaropoulou for the country's next president, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared to have secured the broad consensus required to secure her appointment by Parliament next week.
Mitsotakis' proposal secured the support of leftist SYRIZA and the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL), bringing backing for Sakellaropoulou to 266 in the 300-seat House, comfortably above the minimum of 200 votes required for the motion for president to pass in the first vote. His initiative put SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras in a tough position as it would have been difficult for the latter to oppose the candidacy of the woman that his own government appointed to the helm of the country's highest administrative court.
Tsipras said SYRIZA would back Mitsotakis' nomination as "an act of responsibility." "We will allow the...