Stavros Theodorakis

Party leaders took the floor of Greek Parliament following a three-day debate on government policies prior to a vote of confidence at dawn on Thursday.

The election process kicked off at 7 p.m. on September 20, with most voting centers being eerily empty.

Highlights from election day:

* Pollsters were worried that people would prefer the beach over the voting booth. One man chose both:

Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis voted at Chania polling station and said we must be determined to make fair compromises.

All eyes were on the Greek political leader’s debate that took place on Monday, ahead of the snap elections set for September 20. With polls showing that neither of the two rivals are likely to secure a majority, both Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras and conservative main opposition New Democracy party head Vangelis Meimarakis wary of alienating voters.

Candidates continued to criss-cross the country on Friday, with snap elections in just over a week in what — hopefully — will be the last political campaign in crisis-plagued Greece in 2015.

Centrist Potami (River) party leader Stavros Theodorakis on Friday underlined that other parties burdened Greece with billions of euros in debt, yet they are still asking for absolute majorities.

Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis will attend a series of meetings today in Thessaloniki where he arrived for his scheduled press conference at 3 pm today in the framework of the 80th Thessaloniki International Fair. Apart from the press conference, he will meet with Thessaloniki’s mayor Yannis Boutaris and students of American Farm School.

Below are the highlights from a three-hour and mostly tepid debate by the seven political leaders with parties represented in the outgoing Parliament (sans Golden Dawn).

The political campaign ahead of the September 20 snap elections in Greece is gathering pace and momentum as the political rhetoric intensifies. The debate on Wednesday night is expected to be a crucial point in the campaign as seven political party leaders face six Greek journalists representing different channels.

The leaders:

New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis on Monday kicked off the center-right party’s pre-election campaign from the city of Patras, saying the mainstream political formation is the one that supports unity among the Greek people.

“Others want to divide us with their rhetoric,” he told supporters at an indoor sports arena.