Greece elects conservative Tassoulas as president despite protests

Constantine Tassoulas’s candidacy had led to choler among demonstrators decrying Greece’s worst obstruction disaster.

Greece’s parliament has elected the blimpish government’s nominee, Constantine Tassoulas, arsenic the country’s president, contempt protester choler arsenic justness is sought for a deadly 2023 bid crash.

Tassoulas, a cardinal state of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won the backing of 160 lawmakers successful Wednesday’s ballot successful the 300-seat parliament to win Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Greece’s archetypal pistillate president’s five-year word expires successful March.

Mitsotakis said past period that helium chose Tassoulas connected relationship of his governmental experience, wide acceptance, and his “unifying spirit”.

But the determination to nominate him led to aggravated rallies extracurricular parliament. Protesters accidental that connected Tassoulas’s ticker arsenic parliamentary speaker, lawmakers failed to analyse immoderate governmental work for Greece’s worst obstruction disaster.

Fifty-seven radical were killed erstwhile a freight train and a passenger train packed with students collided successful February 2023 extracurricular the metropolis of Larissa.

The catastrophe prompted demonstrations crossed the state arsenic galore blamed information deficiencies successful Greece’s railway web and demanded punishment for those responsible.

Two years later, a judicial probe is inactive continuing. Parliament is the lone assemblage that tin analyse politicians nether Greek law.

According to a study by experts hired by families of the victims, the bid clang sparked a immense fireball and it remains unclear what caused it.

A increasing fig of experts person ruled retired theories that energy cables oregon oils utilized successful the rider bid caused the fire, raising questions implicit the freight train’s cargo.

The centre-right authorities led by Mitsotakis, which was re-elected aft the crash, has rejected accusations of wrongdoing.

Centre-left and left-wing absorption parties had projected different candidates and did not backmost Tassoulas, 65, a lawyer who has been a person since 2000 and has antecedently served arsenic Greece’s civilization curate and lawman defence minister.

Accepting the information past month, Tassoulas called it a “paramount honour and responsibility”.

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