Election In Greece 2019

The majority bonus of 50 seats was abolished in 2016 but was still applied at the 2019 greek legislative election because the new electoral law did not receive a supermajority in parliament and can thus not be enforced in the next election.

Election in greece 2019. The 2019 european parliament election in greece was held on 26 may 2019 electing members of the greek delegation to the european parliament as part of the european elections held across the european union. Syriza won 145 seats in the last election and will come away with almost 60 fewer seats following 2019 s poll. The 2019 greek legislative election was held on 7 july 2019.

New democracy won 75 seats in the previous election in september 2015 more than doubling their total now. Preliminary results showed that the centre right liberal conservative new democracy party led by kyriakos mitsotakis won 158 seats an outright majority that is more than double the party s previous representation. In greece it was held in tandem with the first round of the local and regional government elections resulting in a major defeat for the governing syriza party and forcing prime minister alexis tsipras to bring forward the scheduled legislative election for 7 july 2019.