Stavros Theodorakis

European Parliament President Martin Schulz met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as part of Schulz’s unofficial visit to Athens, just before he leaves for Cyprus this evening.

Stavros Theodorakis on Sunday was re-elected leader of Potami party by a large majority after the completion of the voting procedure for the election of the party’s new leadership.

Theodorakis received 715 votes (88.16%) while the second candidate Pavlos Eleftheriadis received 96 votes.

Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos had successive meetings with the political leaders and then with President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

The draft bill on social security system will be sent to the institutions in the afternoon via email after Mr. Katrougalos’s meeting with Mr. Pavlopoulos.

The election process kicked off at 7 p.m. on September 20, with most voting centers being eerily empty.

Highlights from election day:

* Pollsters were worried that people would prefer the beach over the voting booth. One man chose both:

Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis voted at Chania polling station and said we must be determined to make fair compromises.

Centrist Potami (River) party leader Stavros Theodorakis on Friday underlined that other parties burdened Greece with billions of euros in debt, yet they are still asking for absolute majorities.

Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis will attend a series of meetings today in Thessaloniki where he arrived for his scheduled press conference at 3 pm today in the framework of the 80th Thessaloniki International Fair. Apart from the press conference, he will meet with Thessaloniki’s mayor Yannis Boutaris and students of American Farm School.

The political campaign ahead of the September 20 snap elections in Greece is gathering pace and momentum as the political rhetoric intensifies. The debate on Wednesday night is expected to be a crucial point in the campaign as seven political party leaders face six Greek journalists representing different channels.

The leaders:

Leader of party ’To Potami’ Stavros Theodorakis underlined the need to support the agricultural sector of Greece during his pre-election campaign trip to the town of Grevena in Western Macedonia, Saturday. Theodorakis visited pasture lands and animal pens and talked with 40 local stock breeders who briefed him on the problems they are facing and ways to tackle them.

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.