New Election In Greece

P with greece hurtling toward new elections and a possible exit from the euro zone president karolos papoulias prepared to make a last ditch appeal on monday for the country s sharply divided political parties to form a unity government even as his hopes for success all but evaporated over the weekend.

New election in greece. Major changes in greek election 2019 the most substantial change in the new hellenic parliament will be the party in power. With most districts counted prime minister alexis tsipras admitted defeat to his rival kyriakos. The 2019 greek legislative election was held on 7 july 2019.

Syriza won 145 seats in the last election and will come away with almost 60 fewer seats following 2019 s poll. The leaders of greece s main political parties remained adamant in their positions on the. 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.

Updated 2018 gmt 0418 hkt july 7 2019. The 6 may election left no party with enough votes for a majority in parliament getty images greece will hold a new election in june after days of talks failed to resolve the country s political. 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.

Greece s centre right opposition party new democracy has won the nation s snap general election. New democracy conservative party leader kyriakos mitsotakis speaks outside party s headquarters after the general election in athens greece july 7 2019.