Pavlopoulos

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Prokopis Pavlopoulos as the presidential candidate of the coalition government.

Pavlopoulos, who is a centre-right moderate, served as Interior Minister between 2004 and 2009 and was likely nominated for his criticism of the bailout agreement, daily Kathimerini reports.

To Potami on Tuesday nominated Nicos Alivizatos, a professor of constitutional law, as a candidate for Greece's president.

?Everyone has an obligation to contribute to efforts to deal with the unprecedented problems facing the country,? Alivizatos said after accepting the proposal made by the centrist party's leader Stavros Theodorakis.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has nominated former conservative ND minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos for the post of president of the republic, making the announcement to his MPs on Tuesday.

The majority of Greeks support the government, an opinion poll showed Saturday, also finding that most people are satisfied with the outcome of negotiations with the country?s foreign lenders.

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Panayiotis and Dionysis Psomiadis, brothers who served respectively as prefect and deputy prefect of Thessaloniki, were granted conditional release on Monday and ordered to pay 20,000 euros each in bail after pleading not guilty to corruption charges.