Greek President Karolos Papoulias was re-elected for a second five-year term in office Wednesday after winning majority support in a parliamentary vote,
DPA reported.
The 81-year-old former Socialist foreign minister and member of parliament, was re-elected by an unprecedented 266 votes in the 300- seat parliament.
Papoulias was first elected in February 2005 in the largely ceremonial post.
Born in Ioannina in 1929, he completed his studies in Athens and Milan. He obtained his PhD at Cologne University and went on to practice law from 1963 to 1981.
Papoulias was living in Germany at the time of 1967 military coup in Greece. During the seven-year dictatorship Papoulias helped found a student resistance organization and regularly denounced the junta in broadcasts to Greece.
He is married and has three daughters.
