In the first phase, no candidate had sufficient votes to become president. Karamanlis refused to participate in this phase. In the first round, Sartzetakis, and the current president, received 151 votes with the support of
PASOK and
Synaspismos, while New Democracy abstained. In the second round, Sartzetakis received 21 votes since PASOK had a new candidate
Giannis Alevras, who received 127 votes. In the third round, Sartzetakis received 21 votes again and
Giannis Alevras 128 votes. Since no president was elected, new
elections on 8 April took place under the
Constitution. In the second phase, there were three candidates, Karamanlis supported by New Democracy, Alevras from PASOK, and
Konstantinos Despotopoulos from Synaspismos. The first round failed to point to a victor. Karamanlis received 153 votes in the second round, two votes above the threshold of 151, becoming president for a second time. ==References==