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Konstantinos Tasoulas was re-elected as President of the Hellenic Parliament with 249 votes on Tuesday. Tasoulas was re-elected as Parliament President with the votes of New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK and Hellenic Solution MPs. The 59 MPs from the other opposition parties abstained. In a speech after his re-election, the President …

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For the first time in the history of the Greek Parliament the Speaker did not allow the leader of a political party, and in this case the leader of main opposition party, to speak during a session. The unprecedented incident took place on Friday when Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas refused …

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With a record of votes, Constantinos Tasoulas, a deputy of conservative New Democracy, was elected Speaker of the Greek Parliament. He received 283 votes out of 298 present lawmakers and broke the record of Speaker Zoi Konstantopoulou -now former SYRIZA- who was elected with 235 votes in 2015. The election …

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Speaker of Greek Parliament, Nikos Voutsis, announced the …unprecedented: That Greek lawmakers will be equally taxed as the ordinary Greek citizens. Speaking to private television Kontra TV, Voutsis said on Thursday that he will introduce an amendment according to which MPs will no longer enjoy taxation benefits. “There will be …

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The debate on Pensions Reform was interrupted short before 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon just a couple of hours before the voting at midnight. Fierce quarrel with open insults occurred between a Syriza minister and two MPs of the right-extremists of Golden Dawn MPs with the Parliament Speaker to expel one …

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