Vassiliki Thanou was installed on Thursday as Greece’s first, albeit caretaker, female prime minister and given the task of guiding the country to snap elections on September 20.
The caretaker cabinet is due to be sworn in at noon on Friday. Veteran diplomat Petros Molyviatis is due to be named foreign minister, while a key member of Greece’s negotiating team for the third bailout, Giorgos Houliarakis, is expected to be made finance minister.
Academic Antonis Manitakis, who served in a previous coalition, is due to take over at the Interior Ministry, where he will be responsible for overseeing the election process, which is expected to cost close to 40 million euros. Deputy Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos, a former judge, will be promoted to the senior position at the ministry.
Thanou was sworn in last night after President Prokopis Pavlopoulos called all the party leaders individually on Thursday afternoon and established there was no prospect of a government being formed from the current administration.
Source: ekathimerini.com