Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos approves prime minister Alexis Tsipras call for dissolving parliament and to hold general election Monday June 10,2019

Greece's  president has accepted a request from Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament, formally triggering a snap election that the prime minister has called for next month after his party suffered a resounding defeat in European parliamentary and local elections.

Monday June 10,2019's request from Tsipras and approval from President Prokopis Pavlopoulos were considered formalities. Pavlopoulos is now expected to issue a decree ordering the new vote to be held on July 7

Tsipras called the snap election four months before the end of his term after the main opposition conservative New Democracy beat his leftist Syriza party by 9.5 points in the European Parliament election in May 2019