Related Research Articles
Alexandros 'Alekos' Alavanos is a Greek politician,former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. From 2004 until 2008 he was president of the Coalition of the Left of Movements and Ecology,commonly known as Synaspismos. He was parliamentary leader of the wider Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
The Coalition of the Radical Left –Progressive Alliance,best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA,is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Greece. It was founded in 2004 as a political coalition of left-wing and radical left parties,and registered as a political party in 2012.
Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos is a Greek retired politician,who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy,he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2009. He was succeeded by Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 13 March 2020,who became the first woman to serve as President of Greece.
The Third Hellenic Republic is the period in modern Greek history that stretches from 1974,with the fall of the Greek military junta and the final confirmation of the abolishment of the Greek monarchy,to the present day.
Yannis Dragasakis is a Greek politician and who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Greece from 27 January to 28 August 2015 and 23 September 2015 to 8 July 2019. He is a member of the Greek Parliament for the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) for the Athens B constituency.
Sofia Sakorafa is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25,having formerly sat for Syriza and before that served,from June 2012 to July 2014,as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament. She served as a deputy speaker in the Hellenic Parliament for the MeRA25 party. She is the president of Association hellénique d'athlétisme amateur (SEGAS).
Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019.
The Independent Greeks –National Patriotic Alliance was a national conservative political party in Greece.
Thessaloniki Alpha is an electoral constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. With an electorate of 531,732 eligible voters (as of 2019) in the urban area of Thessaloniki,Central Macedonia,it elects sixteen members of parliament.
The River was a centrist and social-liberal political party in Greece. The party was founded in February 2014 by Stavros Theodorakis. The party did not run in the 2019 elections and had no seats in the Hellenic Parliament.
Indirect presidential elections were held in Greece in December 2014 and February 2015 for the succession to Karolos Papoulias as President of the Hellenic Republic. The candidate of the ND–PASOK government,Stavros Dimas,failed to secure the required majority of MPs of the Hellenic Parliament in the first three rounds of voting in December. According to the provisions of the Constitution of Greece,a snap election was held on 25 January 2015,which was won by the left-wing Syriza party. Following the convening of the new Parliament,the presidential election resumed. On 18 February 2015,veteran ND politician Prokopis Pavlopoulos,backed by the Syriza-ANEL coalition government,was elected with 233 votes.
Nikos Voutsis is a Greek politician,former MP who served as the Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction from January 2015 to August 2015,and as President of the Hellenic Parliament from October 2015 to July 2019.
Zoe Konstantopoulou is a Greek politician of the political left,who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from February to October 2015. Since 2016 she has been the president of the Course of Freedom.
Pavlos Polakis is a Greek politician and physician. He currently serves in the Hellenic Parliament as an MP for Chania,with the SYRIZA party. He commenced his political career at the local government level,serving as Mayor of Sfakia from 2011 to 2015. He joined the central political arena as a member of parliament for the prefecture of Chania in 2015. He served as Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction. in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras and Alternate Minister of Health in the Second Cabinet. He has been an elected MP for Chania with SYRIZA since 2015.
Olga Gerovasili is a Greek politician who has been serving as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for Arta since 17 May 2012. Born in Arta,she studied radiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She then became secretary for the Arta Medical Society and the Medical Association in 1997 and 2003,respectively.
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 21 May 2023. 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.
The Greek Solution 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,national conservative,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.
Eftychia "Effie" Achtsioglou,is a Greek politician who served as Minister for Labour,Social Insurance and Social Solidarity from 2016 to 2019. She is a member of the Hellenic Parliament since July 2019 and a leading figure of the New Left since December 2023. She was a member of SYRIZA and an MP for the party until she left in November 2023.
Sokratis Famellos is a Greek politician and former chemical engineer who had served as Chairman of Syriza parliamentary group from 2023 to 2024.
References
- ↑ https://vouliwatch.gr/mp/aylonitis-alexandros-hristos
- ↑ SYRIZA: The deputy Alexandros Avlonitis became independent (el)
- ↑ SYRIZA parliamentary group reduced to 31 MPs as another four go independent
- ↑ "Hellenic Parliament". September 15, 2023.
- ↑ Παγκράτη, Μαρία (2019-06-17). "Κέρκυρα: Τα βιογραφικά των υποψηφίων του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ – ΠΡΟΟΔΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΣΥΜΜΑΧΙΑ". ertnews.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2023-09-15.