Greece General Election Wiki

The supreme court decided that 18 parties and 4 party coalitions could participate.

Greece general election wiki. This was the first national election in greece and third election overall since the voting age was lowered to 17 and. The september 2015 greek legislative election was held in greece on sunday 20 september following prime minister alexis tsipras announced resignation on 20 august. All 300 seats in the hellenic parliament were contested.

The result was a victory for the opposition pasok party led by george papandreou who became the new prime minister. These elections determine the prime minister and makeup of the legislature in a parliamentary democracy or the president and then the legislature in a system where separate votes are taken for different tiers of government. This was a snap election the sixth since 2007 since new elections were not due until february 2019.

If all attempts to form a new government fails the constitution directs the president to dissolve a. Elections were not required until september 2011 but on 2 september 2009 prime minister kostas karamanlis of new democracy announced that he would request president karolos papoulias dissolve parliament and call elections. According to the greek constitution members of parliament are elected for terms of four years with elections required within thirty days of their terms expiration.

The 2019 greek legislative election was held on 7 july 2019. The party took nearly 40 of the popular vote. 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.

The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election to the present day. The greek parliament voulí ton ellínon has 300 members elected for a four year term by a system of reinforced proportional representation in 59 constituencies 52 of which are multi seat and 7 single seat. In june 2009 and under his leadership his party won the 2009 european parliament election in greece.

The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. 21 parties 4 party coalitions and 1 independent candidate applied for participation in the elections. Parliament was dissolved on 9 september.