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An indirect election for the position of
President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the
Hellenic Parliament on 8 February 2005.
Running unopposed, veteran
PASOK politician and former
Foreign Minister of Greece
Karolos Papoulias was elected on the first ballot with the record number of 279 votes, with 163 MPs of the ruling
New Democracy party, 114 MPs of PASOK and two independent MPs voting in support, four MPs absent, while the 17 MPs of
Synaspismos and the
Communist Party of Greece voted "present".
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[2] He was sworn in on 12 March 2005, succeeding
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.
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