Dimitris Sioufas

The funeral of Dimitris Sioufas, a former New Democracy minister and Parliament speaker, is to be held at the First Cemetery of Athens on Monday.

Sioufas's family asked that the funeral's expenses not be covered by the state, the Interior Ministry said.

Dimitris Sioufas, a former New Democracy minister and Parliament speaker from 2007 to 2009  died on Friday. He was 75.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy Party leader Evangelos Meimarakis said the problems that arose during the voting of the New Democracy party’s elections was purely “technical and should not have been politicized.” Making statements outside the conservative party headquarters at Syngrou Street on Monday morning, he said: “I entered this process showing respect to my fellow candidates a