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Greek President Signs Decree to Hold Snap Elections on September 20

© REUTERS / Alkis KonstantinidisGreek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos looks on before a meeting with Popular Unity far-left leader Panagiotis Lafazanis (unseen) at the Presidential Palace in Athens, GreeceAugust 27, 2015
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos looks on before a meeting with Popular Unity far-left leader Panagiotis Lafazanis (unseen) at the Presidential Palace in Athens, GreeceAugust 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Snap parliamentary election in Greece will be held on September 20, according to a decree signed by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

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.

A hand of a statue is seen as the Greek flag waves in Athens, Sunday, June 28, 2015. - Sputnik International
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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.

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