Prime Minister proposes Kostas Tasoulas for President - “Top honor and responsibility”: Tasoulas’ first reaction in Parliament
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Parliament speaker, Kostas Tasoulas, announced to Parliament the Prime Minister's choice of his person as the candidate and certain next President of the Republic, .
Mr. Tasoulas took the floor in Parliament in a first reaction after the Prime Minister’s announcement, speaking of a top honor and responsibility and at the same time announcing that the election procedures will begin on Saturday, January 25.
“The Prime Minister’s proposal is a top honor as well as a responsibility. We have entered uncertain times, both near us and more broadly in the world
The preservation of national unity and the harmonious functioning of Institutions are becoming valuable prerequisites for the stability and prosperity of the country
This is also the mission of the President as described in the Constitution,” he said, among other things.
Konstantinos (Kostas) Tasoulas (Ioannina, 17 July 1959) is a Greek politician and lawyer. Kostas Tasoulas has been Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament since July 2019 and is a New Democracy MP elected in Ioannina. Tasoulas has been elected in the capital of Epirus continuously since 2000, while he has served as Deputy Minister of National Defense in the government of Kostas Karamanlis (2007–2009) as well as Minister of Culture and Sports in the government of Antonis Samaras (2014–2015). Kostas Tasoulas studied Law at the University of Athens and worked as a lawyer.
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