section_path: Candidates/Other potential candidates
section_name: Other potential candidates
paragraph_text: Other potential candidates
  
  Against this backdrop, many within the ND party called for another candidate to be put forward by the Prime Minister for this presidential election, with some party deputies going so far as to call for the appointment of a political figure chosen from the right. In this case, the names of former prime ministers Kostas Karamanlis, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, and Antonis Samaras, as well as parliamentary speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas, were mentioned.
  
  The possibility of a candidacy by the Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, is also being put forward within the ranks of the parliamentary majority.