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(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, MAY 24 - A senior Greek judge, Ioannis
Sarmas, will be formally asked Wednesday to lead an interim
government tasked with organising a second national election by
late June, the presidency announced. "President Katerina
Sakellaropoulou will receive... Ioannis Sarmas to charge him
with forming a government and organising elections," it said in
a statement. Outgoing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has
called for a fresh election as early as June 25 after securing
his party's biggest electoral triumph in years, but five seats
short of being able to produce a single-party government. The
announcement about Sarmas, 66, comes three days after
Mitsotakis's conservative New Democracy party secured a 20-point
lead over its nearest contender, Syriza, led by leftist Alexis
Tsipras, at national elections on Sunday. It was the Greek
conservatives' best result since 2007, crediting the party with
bringing economic stability back to a nation once known as an EU
laggard. (ANSA-AFP).
