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The ballots in a polling station in Argos The polling booth in a polling station in Argos. New Democracy has been a proponent of majority bonuses since 1974. Soon after returning to power in the 2019 parliamentary election, they passed a new electoral law to reinstate the bonus that had been eliminated by the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government's 2016 law (which established a purely proportional ...
[12] [13] The election day was set for Sunday 21 May, [13] a day before the end of the 30-day period within which elections must be held following the dissolution of the Parliament. [citation needed] A large number of parties, mostly of the far right, were stopped from running in the elections either because of legal or bureaucratic reasons. [14]
As of November 2019, after a constitutional amendment, Article 32, Paragraph 4 of the Greek Constitution which states about the election of the President was changed and the new reform of the paragraph is as follows: If after 3 ballots the president is not elected, the 4th ballot's threshold will drop to 151 votes and the fifth and last ballot ...
Greece is heading toward a new general election, two days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy party won a landslide victory in a national vote but failed in clinch ...
Greece faces new national elections as early as June 25, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirming Monday he would not try to build a coalition government — despite having dominated the ...
Greece holds a general election Sunday, called three months early by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he suffered a stinging defeat in European Parliament elections in May to ...
25 June – June 2023 Greek legislative election: Nea Demokratia wins another term in office following May's fruitless election. Spartans, Course of Freedom and Niki enter the Parliament for the first time. 25 July – 2023 Greece wildfires: Two HAF servicemen are killed when a Canadair CL-215 waterbomber crashes on Evia island. [11]
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of Greece’s center-right New Democracy party, has comfortably won a second four-year term as prime minister, on a night that also saw gains for the far right.