Pavlopoulos

Major opposition party leader of New Democracy (ND) Evangelos Meimarakis returned the mandate, Monday morning, he received from Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos Friday, after failed attempts (something totally predictable) to form a coalition government from the current political groups in the Greek parliament.

European Commission representative Annika Breidthardt said Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was fully aware of the decision by Greek PM Alexis Tsipras to resign and call snap elections.

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will propose holding early elections on 20 September, the country's state news agency AMNA reported on Thursday, citing government sources.

Tsipras is later expected to make a televised statement and then go to announce his decision to resign and call early elections to President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, AMNA said, citing government sources.

A European Commission spokeswoman on Friday praised the approval by Greek lawmakers of a bailout memorandum agreement with institutional lenders.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos  on Wednesday spoke by phone with both European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and French President Francois Hollande ahead of a crucial vote in Greece’s Parliament for the third bailout memorandum between Athens and its international creditors.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed the need for an emergency EU-Summit on the issue of refugee and immigrant flows to Europe, while receiving leader of Greek party Potami Stavros Theodorakis at the Presidential Mansion, Wednesday.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed the need for unity on Thursday during his visit to Samos where he was declared an honorary citizen of the island. He underlined his commitment to working towards making Greece a “stronghold of European democracy and European culture through the priceless, spiritual and institutional heritage of ancient Greece and of our ancestors.”

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed his certainty that Greece would exit the current economic crisis on the sidelines of the ceremony the procession ceremony of the icon of Transfiguration of the Savior on the island of Samos.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos once more reiterated that Greece’s position within the European family during a brief greeting to law students at the Presidential Mansion Tuesday. “The country’s course in the European Union and the Eurozone was and remains non-negotiable and undisturbed”, he said.

The provisional conservative leader of the main opposition New Democracy party, Vangelis Meimarakis, met with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Mansion at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday.