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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The 2023 Cretan regional election took place on 8 October 2023, simultaneously with the rest of Greece. The election was for all 45 elected seats of the Regional Council of Crete as well as the Regional Governor. This was the fourth Cretan regional election and the incumbent Governor (Stavros Arnaoutakis, PASOK) ran for a fourth consecutive term.
June 2023 Greek legislative election, 25 June; 2023 Greek local elections, 8 October (first round) & 15 October (second round) Italy. 2023 Italian local elections, 2-3 April & 17-18 April (Friuli-Venezia Giulia) / 14-15 May (first round) / 21 May (first round in Aosta Valley and Trentino-Alto Adige) / 28-29 May (second round and first round in ...