Greece sets national elections date for January
Greece will hold early national elections on January 25 after parliament failed to elect a new president in a third and final round of voting, prime minister Antonis Samaras has announced.
His coalition government’s candidate for the presidential post, 73-year-old former European commissioner Stavros Dimas, won 168 votes from parliament’s 300 seats – short of the 180 votes needed to win.
