MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has signed a decree to hold a snap parliamentary election in the country on September 20, local media reported Friday.
Greece's interim Interior Minister Antonis Manitakis has been charged with organizing the election. The new parliament is expected to convene for its first session on October 1.
Following Tsipras' resignation, the leaders of Greece's opposition parties, the center-right New Democracy party and the far-right Golden Dawn, returned the mandate to form a new government after failing to find coalition partners.
According to the survey conducted by ProRata on behalf of the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper, Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza party is slightly ahead in the polls released Friday, but faces a formidable opponent in the form of the center-right New Democracy Party.
