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June 28, 2012

Greece's 300 MPs Sworn In - VIDEO REPORT


Greece's newly elected deputies were sworn in on Thursday, some eleven days after the country's second election. The deputies were sworn in at a religious ceremony that was held at Parliament and that was led by the head of Greece's Orthodox Church Archbishop Ieronymos. In the second video below, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and the General Secretariat of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) Aleka Papariga refused to even touch the cross.