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The Democratic Alignment (, DISI), also translated as Democratic Coalition, was a
political alliance A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies. Some parliamentary systems allow smaller political parties, who a ...
in
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.


History

The alliance was launched on 30 August 2015 by the
Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy, its main political r ...
(PASOK) and the Democratic Left (DIMAR). In the September 2015 legislative election, the alliance received 6.3% of the vote, providing the mandate for 17 seats in the
Hellenic Parliament The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme demo ...
. In January 2017, the Movement of Democratic Socialists joined Democratic Alignment. Οn 13 January 2017, MPs Leonidas Grigorakos and Ilchan Achmet joined the Democratic Alignment. On 16–18 March 2018, DISI and other Greek centre-left parties merged into
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. It remained legally active (albeit not as a political formation) alongside PASOK – KINAL,
PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was Two-party system, one of the two major ...
and
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until 2022; balance sheets were published for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.


Election results


Hellenic Parliament

A 09/2015 results compared to the combined totals for
PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was Two-party system, one of the two major ...
and DIMAR in the January 2015 election.


Name

The name '' Democratic Alignment'' has been previously used by a 1950/51 centre-left coalition. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook'', p. 830 It had previously been proposed in 2014 by Evangelos Venizelos as a new name for PASOK, but was rejected by former prime minister
George Papandreou George Andreas Papandreou (, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as a ...
.


See also

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Candidates
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