Presidential Election In Greece

A man rides his bicycle on election day in astoria ny credit.

Presidential election in greece. The election was held earlier than scheduled due to the failure of the greek parliament to elect a new president on 29 december 2014. Anastasios papapostolou dec 17 2014 at a crucial point for greece s future the greek parliament voted for a new greek president but the first round of voting did not elect stavros dimas as greek president. The january 2015 greek legislative election was held in greece on sunday 25 january to elect all 300 members to the hellenic parliament in accordance with the constitution.

All 300 seats in the hellenic parliament were contested. Incumbent president prokopis pavlopoulos who was elected by the hellenic parliament on the 18 february 2015 was eligible for re election but was not suggested by the government. Nicholas burns a harvard professor and a former us ambassador to greece who endorses biden spoke to kathimerini newspaper about the election.

Indirect presidential elections were held in greece on wednesday 22 january 2020 for the president of the hellenic republic. Vice president biden is a longtime friend of. As the whole world anxiously awaited the exit polls from the us on november 3rd in what was the most critical presidential election with the highest voter turnout since 1900 so did many in greece.

The result of the us presidential election although trump s has been hesitant in conceding was welcomed by the greek government. 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. 21 parties 4 party coalitions and 1 independent candidate applied for participation in the elections.

Indirect presidential elections were held in greece in december 2014 and february 2015 for the succession to karolos papoulias as president of the hellenic republic. The candidate of the nd pasok government stavros dimas failed to secure the required majority of mps of the hellenic parliament in the first three rounds of voting in december. Election fever has also caught the greek american community in astoria new york as millions of americans are heading to the polls for the presidential election which is regarded as one of the most divisive and polarized ever.

The greek turkish crisis in the eastern mediterranean that has been evolving since mid july 2020 has exhibited the difficulty of greece reaching the white house as opposed to turkey. 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 2019 greek legislative election was held on 7 july 2019.