This is a list of the 300 members who were elected to the

Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...

in the January 2015 Greek legislative election. A new legislative election took place on 20 September 2015.

Composition

Changes from previous Parliament

The new parliament, sworn in on 5 February 2015, presented a radical departure from the past, with 134 out of 300 MPs elected for the first time. The new parliament also boasts the record number of 68 women MPs. For the first time, there was provision of a civil, instead of religious, oath, with the majority of MPs preferring to take the civil oath. Sixteen former ministers and other veteran political figures, chiefly from New Democracy and PASOK, failed to get elected. The most prominent "casualty" is former Prime Minister and former PASOK chairman George Papandreou, making this the first parliament since 1923 without a representative of the Papandreou political dynasty. The only MP remaining to have served in the first Parliament of the Third Hellenic Republic in 1974 is New Democracy member for

Piraeus B Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saronic ...

, Ioannis Tragakis, while the only member elected in the 1977 parliament is New Democracy chairman and outgoing Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras.

Members of Parliament

Changes table below records all changes in party affiliation.

Changes

* 2 July 2015: (Heraklion) leaves

ANEL The Independent Greeks - National Patriotic Alliance ( el, Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες (ΑΝΕΛ), ''Anexartitoi Ellines'', ANEL) is a national-conservative political party in Greece. The party was the junior coalition partner to the ...

, then resigns from Parliament. His seat is taken by Grigoris Makaronas. * 13 July 2015: Nikos Chountis (

Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance ( el, Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία, Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), ...

Athens B Athens B (Athens Beta; el, Β΄ Αθηνών) was a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It covered a large part of urban area of Athens outside the Municipality of Athens, which forms the Athens A constit ...

) resigns from Parliament in order to succeed

Manolis Glezos Manolis Glezos ( el, Μανώλης Γλέζος; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020) was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance. In Greece, he is best r ...

in the European Parliament. His seat is taken by

Giorgos Kyritsis Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos ( el, Γιώργος) is a common abbreviation of the given name Georgios. Notable people with the name include: Persons Giorgos * Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer * Gio ...

. *21 August 2015:

Panagiotis Lafazanis Panagiotis Lafazanis ( el, Παναγιώτης Λαφαζάνης, ; born 19 November 1951) is a Greek politician. He served as the leader of a new Greek left-wing political party, Popular Unity, from 21 August 2015 until his resignation on 2 J ...

, , , Konstantinos Delimitros, , , Ioannis Zerdelis, Konstantinos-Iraklis Isychos, Ilias Ioannidis, , Aglaia Kyritsi, Thomas Kotsias, Konstantinos Lapavitsas, Efstathios Leoutsakos, , ,

Athanasios Petrakos Athanasios ( el, Αθανάσιος), also transliterated as Athnasious, Athanase or Atanacio, is a Greek male name which means "immortal". In modern Greek everyday use, it is commonly shortened to Thanasis (Θανάσης), Thanos (Θάνος), S ...

, Stefanos Samoilis, Athanasios Skoumas, , , Alexandra Tsanaka, ,

Eleni Psarrea Eleni is a transliteration of the Greek name Ελένη, also written as Helen, Helene: * Eleni (given name), including lists of people with that name * ''Eleni'' (film), 1985 film adaptation of Gage's book, by Peter Yates *, Greek cargo ship in s ...

and leave Syriza and form Popular Unity.

Notes and references

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