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All Greek citizens aged 17 or over in the year of the election are eligible to vote, provided they are on the electoral register, unless: they are imprisoned for a criminal offence and they have been expressly deprived of the right to vote by judicial decision (this happens only in the rare cases of high treason or mutiny ).
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]
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 ...
In the event of a non-election even after the third ballot, the parliament is to be dissolved and a snap election to be called within ten days. After reconvening, the new parliament holds a maximum of three further rounds of voting, with the required majority at 180 votes in the fourth and a simple majority of 151 votes in the fifth round.
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.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Greece was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the first to take place after Brexit. [1] The governing New Democracy came first, but ceded ground in terms of both popular vote and seats secured. [2]