The last attempt provided for by the Greek law to form a government that emerged from last Sunday's legislative elections failed this Wednesday, with which it is now certain that the Greeks will have a new appointment with the polls, at the end of June.
After between Monday and Tuesday the candidates of the three most voted parties (in third place were the Social Democrats) returned without fulfilling the order to form a new government or refused to accept it, the head of state, Katerina Sakelaropúlu, has summoned a all leaders to the seat of the presidency. The meeting ended with the expected failure, since it was a formal step required by law as a last resort to try to form a new Executive. Sakelaropúlu, has appointed the president of the Court of Accounts, Ioannis Sarmás, interim prime minister, entrusting him with forming a technical Executive that will lead the country to the new legislative elections.
"It is my constitutional obligation to accept the mandate, but also my duty as a citizen," the 66-year-old magistrate told the head of state, as reported by public television ERT. Sarmás, who after serving as a magistrate of the Constitutional Court for six years before assuming the presidency of the Court of Accounts in 2019, must choose the members of his cabinet until next Friday, when they must be sworn in, according to the plan published by the local press.
On Sunday, May 28, the new Parliament arising from the legislative elections will be constituted, which will be dissolved the following day, Monday, local media report. That same day the new elections will be called, in which the conservative New Democracy (ND) of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, starts as the favorite after the clear victory that he achieved on May 21 with 40.8% of the votes. Its main rival, the opposition and leftist Syriza, only got 20%, a "painful" debacle as its leader, former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has acknowledged.
Mitsotakis already declared on Sunday, after knowing the result of the vote, in favor of holding new elections because in this way he hopes to achieve, by virtue of a bonus of up to 50 seats to the most voted party that will be introduced on that occasion, the majority absolute number of deputies to govern alone. The prime minister has advocated that the new elections take place on June 25.
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