Athens, Feb 6 (IANS): Greek legislators Friday elected the youngest ever parliament speaker with a record 235 votes in the 300-member assembly with 298 MPs participating in the process.

Ruling Radical Left Syriza party deputy Zoi Konstantopoulou, 38, broke the previous record held by her conservative predecessor Evangelos Meimarakis who was elected in June 2012 with 223 votes, Xinhua news agency reported.

Konstantopoulou was backed by the two-party coalition government of Syriza and the Independent Greeks who jointly hold 162 seats in the chamber, as well as by opposition parties.

She is the second woman to be elected to the post after conservative Anna Psarouda Benakis who was elected in 2004 and served two terms until 2009.

Konstantopoulou is a lawyer and daughter of Nikos Konstantopoulos, former leader of Syriza (1993-2004). She was first elected to parliament in the May 2012 election.

Following the election of the parliament speaker and the vice presidents of the chamber later Friday, the next major event for this parliament which emerged from the Jan 25 election is scheduled for Sunday when new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his cabinet ministers will start making the government's policy statements.

The confidence vote for the government has been rescheduled for Tuesday midnight.