Greek PM Chooses Parliament Speaker as Ruling Party's Presidential Candidate As parliament readies to elect a new head of state, premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis named speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas as his party's nominee, calling him a figure of "wide acceptance" who has conducted ...

1/2 #NikitasKaklamanis, 79, MP and candidate of the ruling centre-right party of #NewDemocracy, is the new speaker of the Greek parliament; a candidacy the majority of the opposition parties supported: #SYRIZA, #PASOK, and the far-right parties of #EllinikiLysi and #Spartans.