European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 13 June 1999 to elect the 25 Greek members to the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

. Members were elected by

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be us ...

with a 3% threshold for any party.

Results

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament. The opposition conservative

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party made gains as did the Communist Party of Greece, while the ruling

PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...

lost ground. Two parties on the left, the relatively new Democratic Social Movement and the

Coalition of the Left and Progress The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology ( el, Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς των Κινημάτων και της Οικολογίας, ''Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías''), com ...

elected two MEPs each.

Political Spring Political Spring ( el, Πολιτική Άνοιξη, ''Politiki Anixi'') was a Greek conservative political party founded in June 1993 by Antonis Samaras. The party was formed after Antonis Samaras broke away from the governing New Democracy ...

, which had elected 2 MEPs in 1994, was unsuccessful in passing the 3% threshold and did not elect any members.Interior Ministry--Election Results
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References

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European Parliament elections in Greece

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1990s in Greek politics