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Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 June 2023. [1] [2] [3] All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament were contested.Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the snap vote after the May 2023 elections did not result in any party gaining a majority, although his centre-right New Democracy made unanticipated gains and increased its share of the vote.
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 21 May 2023. [1] [2] [3] All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament were contested. They were the first elections since 1990 not to be held under a bonus seats system, due to amendments to the electoral law made in 2016. Instead, a purely proportional system was used. [4]
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]
The elections saw an unprecedented historic victory for New Democracy in terms of size and scale, and a similarly crushing defeat for Syriza, but no party won an overall majority. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As a result, the President of the Republic , with the agreement of all parties, called for by-election, which was held on 25 June 2023 by the caretaker ...
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 ...
Local elections were held in Greece on 8 October 2023 and, where a second round was required, on 15 October 2023. [1] Voters elected representatives to the country's local authorities, comprising 13 regions and 332 municipalities.
This is a list of the 300 members who were elected to the Hellenic Parliament-for the 20th parliamentary term (Κ΄ in Greek numerals) - in the June 2023 legislative election, held on 25 June 2023. [1] The "20th parliamentary term" officially began on Monday 3 July 2023 swearing in the oath of members of the Parliament.
However, as was the case with the proportional representation system voted by the previous parliament in 2016, the two thirds supermajority required by the constitution for a new electoral system to be immediately applied in the next election (in May 2023) was not met, and, therefore, the new system only started to be applied to the next ...