Incumbent President
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos was elected on the first ballot with 269 votes out of 298, with the support of the two major parties, the ruling
PASOK and
New Democracy, against 10 votes for
Synaspismos' candidate
Leonidas Kyrkos. The 19 MPs of the
Communist Party of Greece and
DIKKI voted "present", and two were absent.[1] Stephanopoulos' re-election to the presidency marked the first time in the history of the
Third Hellenic Republic that the ruling party and the main opposition party both supported the same candidate, as well as the first time that an incumbent President was re-elected.[1][2]