First female prime minister for Greece announced
Source: The Guardian and agencies
First female prime minister for Greece announced
Agencies in Athens
Thursday 27 August 2015 15.08 BST
Greeces top supreme court judge Vassiliki Thanou was named the head of a caretaker government to lead the country to elections, which are expected next month.
After a final effort to get political party leaders to form a coalition failed, the office of president Prokopis Pavlopoulos said he was obliged to appoint a new caretaker administration that will be sworn in on Friday.
Thanou, the president of the supreme court, becomes the countrys first female prime minister and will be sworn in later on Thursday.
The date for Greeces general election the fifth in six years is to be officially announced by Pavlopoulos by the end of the week, but it is likely to be scheduled for 20 September.
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