Nikos Constantopoulos

The SYRIZA-led coalition will not nominate its candidate for president of the republic on Thursday, as had been expected, but will wait until next week, with the first round of voting on who will replace the current head of state, Karolos Papoulias, due to take place on February 13.

Former Synaspismos leader Nikos Konstantopoulos will be questioned on Tuesday by a prosecutor investigating a newspaper report alleging that businessmen were intending to buy MPs votes for the presidential election in February.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras could be one of the politicians to be questioned next week by prosecutor Panayiotis Panayiotopoulos as part of an investigation into a report last month in Kontra News daily, which claimed that Greek businessmen were amassing funds to bribe MPs ahead of the presidential vote in February.