When does the Parliament close and the next steps

2023-04-17 20:53:54

This means that, according to the Constitution, the Hellenic Parliament should be dissolved 22 to 30 days earlier. Therefore, the Prime Minister is expected on Saturday, April 22, to go to the Presidential Palace in order to ask Mrs. Sakellaropoulou for the early dissolution of the Parliament, citing reasons of national importance (no. 41, par. 2 of the Constitution), and the announcement of national elections . On the same day, the Presidential Decree dissolving the 2nd Presiding Parliamentary Period will be issued, it will be sealed in the Hellenic Parliament and the pre-election period will officially begin.

During this first pre-election period, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will formally remain in the position of Prime Minister, as will the Speaker of the Parliament, Kostas Tasoulas, as well as all the ministers and deputy ministers of the government, except for the Minister of the Interior, Makis Voridis, who will replaced by a caretaker minister, to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

The first elections on May 21 will be held with the simple proportional system and the election of the deputies will occur according to the preference crosses that each candidate will receive. The results of the ballot box, according to the announcements of the Ministry of the Interior, are expected to be known much earlier than the previous times, however, due to simple proportionality, it is estimated that they will be barren in terms of the formation of a government.

This, however, does not mean that the Hellenic Parliament will not open even for one or two days, on May 31 or June 2, in order to take the oath of the elected deputies and on the same day to elect the President of the Parliament. In all probability, that is, we will have the revival, for the second time in our post-political parliamentary history, of the existence of an entire Parliamentary Period (of the ITH) for one day.

The day following the elections on May 21, the President of the Republic will initiate the process of exploratory orders by successively calling the first three party leaders in parliamentary power. Each leader has the possibility to keep the mandate for up to three days, in order to consult with the other parliamentary parties on whether they can collapse the government, i.e. get 151 positive votes from the Plenary. Each of the three leaders, of course, can, during his visit to the Presidential Palace, automatically hand over the mandate, considering that achieving a majority is impossible for him.

How many and which of the three will make use of the possibility of investigation, as well as how many of the three days the order will hold will be decided and on which Sunday the second national polls will be held.

In the case of the second appeal to the polls, a caretaker prime minister, who is expected to be the president of the Court of Auditors, Ioannis Sarmas, will take over as the oldest of the three presidents of the country’s highest courts. We will also have ministerial ministers at least in those ministries involved in the conduct of the elections.

The electoral system with which the second elections will be held will be the increased proportionality and the election of the deputies will be done by a list and not by a cross of preference.

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