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Opinion Polling For The Next Greek Legislative Election
In the run-up to the next Greek legislative election, various organizations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election, held on 25 June 2023, to the present day. Polls are listed in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" columns on the right shows the percentage point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. Voting intention estimates Graphical summary Polling The table below lists nationw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next Greek Legislative Election
Legislative elections are scheduled be held in Greece by July 2023. All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament will be contested. They will be the first elections since 1990 in which the electoral system will not use a bonus seats system, after the 2016 repeal of semi-proportional representation. Electoral system The electoral law in effect for the next legislative election (in 2023 at the latest) is set to be the one voted in 2016 by the second last legislature, where SYRIZA held a plurality. This is due to a constitutional provision on amendments to the electoral law: a two-thirds majority (200 or more votes of the Vouli) is necessary for the law to take immediate effect, and for want of such a supermajority, an electoral law comes into effect only in the next-but-one election. SYRIZA's 2016 law is a switch back to simple proportional representation. It ditched the 50-seat majority bonus in place since 1990 (although thresholds were amended over time). In January 2020, soo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Greece
The Communist Party of Greece ( el, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece and adopted its current name in November 1924. It is the oldest political party in modern Greek politics. The party was banned in 1936, but played a significant role in the Greek resistance and the Greek Civil War, and its membership peaked in the mid-1940s. Legalization of the KKE was restored following the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The party has returned MPs in all elections since its restoration in 1974, and took part in a coalition government in 1989 when it got more than 13% of the vote. History Foundation The October Revolution of the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917 gave impetus for the foundation of Communist parties in many countries globally. The KKE was founded on 4 November 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece (Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Parliament Election In Greece
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. Background Greece (European Parliament constituency), Greece will elect 21 Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. The Spartans (Greek political party), Spartans party was barred from participating in the 2024 european parliament elections an action that was endorsed by New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy, PASOK – Movement for Change, PASOK, New Left (Greece), New left and Syriza while it was rejected by Afroditi Latinopoulou and her Voice of Reason - Afroditi Latinopoulou, Voice of Reason party. Parties participating The parties and party coalitions participating in the election (in alphabetical order): # Antarsya # Assembly of Greeks # Communist Party of Greece # Conservatives # Course of Freedom # Democrats (Greece, 2024), Democrats # Diaspora Network of Greeks in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrats (Greece, 2024)
The Democrats () is a Greek political party founded in 2024 by former PASOK–KINAL politician Andreas Loverdos. It describes itself as a " patriotic, popular, politically liberal, modernizing, reformist, digital and pluralist" party. The party is participated in 2024 European Parliament election in Greece. History On 7 February 2024, Andreas Loverdos filed the necessary documents and supporting documents for the establishment of the party, at the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court. On 4 March 2024, the new party was presented through a Loverdos' video message from Evros. On 20 March 2024, in Brussels, it was announced that the party had joined the European parliamentary group Renew Europe, after a meeting of party officials with the RE leader Valérie Hayer. On 21 March 2024, Panagiotis Konsoulas was elected by the temporary Political Committee of the party as the first Secretary of the party. On 26 March, it was announced that the criminologist Tatiana Douvara took o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Left (Greece)
The New Left (NA; ) is a pro-European left-wing political party in the Hellenic Parliament. It was founded on 4 December 2023 by eleven independent MPs who left the Syriza party. The president of the parliamentary group is Alexis Haritsis. The New Left officially became a party on 3 March 2024 after its founding conference. History After the resignation of Alexis Tsipras as president of Syriza, and the subsequent election of Stefanos Kasselakis to replace him in September 2023, there was an internal crisis in the party. The internal party groups "Umbrella" and "6+6" criticized Kasselakis's attempt to move the party towards the center. Kasselakis is considered to be more moderate than Tsipras, wanting the party to emulate the Democratic Party in the United States, a social-liberal party. He was criticized by some Syriza members for his previous support of the centre-right party New Democracy, which currently has a majority in the Hellenic Parliament and is opposed by Syriza. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Of Reason (political Party)
The Voice of Reason ( el, Φωνή Λογικής, translit=Foní Logikís, FL) is a far-right, ultranationalist political party in Greece. It was established in 2023 by Afroditi Latinopoulou, a lawyer and former tennis athlete. History The party was originally founded as "Homeland" ( el, Πατρίδα, translit=Patrída), but was excluded from the May 2023 Greek legislative election by the Supreme Court due to a dispute over the name and symbol of the Patriotic Force for Change (PATRIDA) party, to which Latinopoulou had previously belonged. The party was subsequently renamed and took part in the snap June 2023 Greek legislative election, receiving 0.43% of the vote. In the 2024 European Parliament election, it received just over the electoral threshold of 3%, electing its leader Afroditi Latinopoulou as an MEP. On 8 July 2024 the party joined the Patriots for Europe, after the latter merged with Identity and Democracy. Political positions On the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MeRA25
The European Realistic Disobedience Front ( el, Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής), or MeRA25 ( el, ΜέΡΑ25), is a left-wing Greek political party founded in 2018. Its founder and General Secretary is former Syriza MP and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. MeRa25 is part of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), the European Spring and the Progressive International. Background MeRA25 was founded on 27 March 2018 by former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. The party's formation was announced during a special event in Athens. In December 2018 former Syriza member and MEP Sofia Sakorafa joined the party. The party contested the 2019 European Parliament election as part of DiEM25. It narrowly failed to win a European Parliament seat. In the 2019 Greek legislative elections, MeRA25 gained 9 seats and 3.44% of the vote. Name Without capitalisation, the letters of ΜέΡΑ25, μέρα (mera), spell the Greek word fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Course Of Freedom
Course of Freedom ( el, Πλεύση Ελευθερίας, translit=Plefsi Eleftherias) is a left-wing Greek political party founded on 19 April 2016, by former President of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou. History After the agreement for the Third Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece by the first government of SYRIZA-ANEL, Zoe Konstantopoulou dissociated herself from the views of the party and participated in the following legislative elections as the leader of Popular Unity in Athens A'. However, the party did not manage to achieve the electoral threshold for representation in the legislature. On 19 April 2016 she announced the founding of Course of Freedom. According to its founding declaration, the party's purpose of action consists of: Democracy, justice, transparency, rights, debt cancellation and claim for World War II reparations. The founding event was attended, among others, by Rachel Makri, Nadia Valavani, Aglaia Kiritsi, Giannis Stathas (all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victory (Greek Political Party)
The Democratic Patriotic Movement “Victory” (), often shortened to simply Victory, is a Greek far-right political party. It was founded by educator Dimitris Natsios in 2019. The party embraces a highly ethnocentric approach to address the demographic challenge, advocating for closed borders and employing an ultranationalist rhetoric regarding family values. It is associated with the clerics of the Greek Orthodox church. Furthermore, the party promotes anti-LGBTQ views and has also endorsed vaccine questioning views, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Its leader, Dimitris Natsios, has also expressed opposition to the legality of abortions in Greece. History The party was founded by the public education teacher and theologian Dimitrios Natsios on 17 June 2019 in Thessaloniki, after the signing of the Prespa agreement and one month before the 2019 parliamentary elections, in which he did not participate. He emerged in the polls shortly before the May 2023 elections.In the elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Solution
The Greek Solution ( el, Ελληνική Λύση, ''Elliniki Lisi'') is a political party in Greece founded by former MP Kyriakos Velopoulos. The party is right wing to far-right and has been described as ideologically ultranationalist and right-wing populist. The party garnered 3.7% of the vote in the 2019 Greek legislative election, winning 10 out of the 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament and 4.18% of the vote in the 2019 European Parliament election in Greece, winning one seat in the European Parliament. History The party was officially founded in June 2016 by journalist Kyriakos Velopoulos, formerly a Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) member. It had previously been announced that a new party was to be founded by him. A formal presentation of the new party took place in October 2016 at an event in the Peace and Friendship Stadium. In the 2019 Greek legislative election, the party earned 3.7% of the vote, electing 10 MPs in the Hellenic Parliament. In the May 2019 European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartans (Greek Political Party)
Spartans () is a Far-right politics, far-right List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece, founded in 2017 by Vasilis Stigkas. It is often described as far-right or extreme-right due to its strong connections with Golden Dawn (Greece), Golden Dawn. Journalists and analysts are divided on the party's ideology, with some describing it as Neo-fascism, neo-fascist or Neo-Nazism, neo-nazi. The party gained significant traction in national polls in mid-June, following an endorsement on Twitter by Ilias Kasidiaris, a former Golden Dawn (Greece), Golden Dawn MP and Greek nationalism, nationalist politician who had been convicted in the trial declaring Golden Dawn, a criminal organisation. Kasidiaris urged his supporters to vote for Spartans in the June 2023 election. Given that many of its members of parliament have previously been associated with either Golden Dawn (Greece), Golden Dawn or Kasidiaris' party Greeks for the Fatherland, which was banned from participati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PASOK – Movement For Change
The PASOK – Movement for Change (PASOK-KINAL; el, ΠΑΣΟΚ – Κίνημα Αλλαγής, PASOK – Kínima Allagís, ΚΙΝΑΛ) is a political party and former political alliance in Greece, founded in March 2018, initially as "Movement for Change" (''Kínima Allagís''), and is mainly affiliated with the centre and the centre-left of the political spectrum. It includes the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and Movement of Democratic Socialists (KIDISO), and formerly included The River and Democratic Left (DIMAR). History In July 2017, PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata announced the formation of a new unified centre-left party in Greece before the end of the year. In the summer of 2017, Stavros Theodorakis, leader and founder of The River also decided to participate in the creation of the party. After the leadership election, both PASOK–DIMAR and The River planned to continue with separate parliamentary groups until the new party's founding congress, scheduled for spring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
