The Communist Party of Greece is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece. It was 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 junta.
George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change.
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician,the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952,in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos. He served numerous times as a cabinet minister,starting in 1923,in a political career that spanned more than five decades.
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 rival.
New Democracy is a liberal political party in Greece. In contemporary Greek politics,New Democracy has been the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties along with its historic rival,the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). New Democracy and PASOK were created in the wake of the toppling of the military junta in 1974,and ruled Greece alternately for the next four decades. Following the electoral decline of PASOK,New Democracy remained one of the two major parties in Greece,the other being the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). The party was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and in the same year it formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic. New Democracy is a member of the European People's Party,the largest European political party since 1999,the Centrist Democrat International,and the International Democrat Union.
Konstantinos Mitsotakis was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son,Kyriakos Mitsotakis,was elected as the Prime Minister of Greece following the 2019 Greek legislative election.
The Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece,mostly known by its acronym OAKKE,is a minor Greek political party known for its strong anti-Russian positions. The Secretary of the Central Committee of OAKKE is Ilias Zafiropoulos.
Nikos Konstantopoulos is a Greek politician,former member of the Hellenic Parliament and former president of the left-wing Synaspismos. His daughter,Zoi,was until September 2015 the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as 14th Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party,he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samaras started his national political career as Minister of Finance in 1989;he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Culture in 2009.
Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as 12th Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012,leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat,he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.
The terms Apostasia or Iouliana or the Royal Coup are used to describe the political crisis in Greece centered on the resignation,on 15 July 1965,of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and subsequent appointment,by King Constantine II,of successive prime ministers from Papandreou's own party,the Centre Union,to replace him. Defectors from the Center Union were branded by Papandreou's sympathizers as Apostates ("renegades"). The Apostasia heralded a prolonged period of political instability,which weakened the fragile post-civil war order,and ultimately led to the establishment of the military regime in April 1967.
Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 4 October 2009. Elections were not required until September 2011,but on 2 September 2009 Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis of New Democracy announced that he would request President Karolos Papoulias dissolve Parliament and call elections. Parliament was dissolved on 9 September.
Giorgos Papakonstantínou in Athens,Greece,is a Greek economist and politician and former Minister for the Environment,Energy and Climate Change of Greece and former Minister for Finance. Following explusion from his party PASOK,he received a one-year suspended sentence for misdemeanours over his handling of the infamous “Lagarde list”. The court found him guilty of removing the names of three relatives of about 2,000 Greeks with money overseas. He is currently a professor at the European University Institute.
Legislative elections were held in Greece on Sunday,6 May 2012 to elect all 300 members to the Hellenic Parliament. It was scheduled to be held in late 2013,four years after the previous election;however,an early election was stipulated in the coalition agreement of November 2011 which formed the Papademos Cabinet. The coalition comprised both of Greece's traditional major political parties,PASOK on the left and New Democracy (ND) on the right,as well as the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). The aim of the coalition was to relieve the Greek government-debt crisis by ratifying and implementing decisions taken with other Eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a month earlier.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Greece.
Nikos Androulakis is a Greek politician and president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and the PASOK –Movement for Change (PASOK–KINAL) since December 2021. In 2014 and in 2019,he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
The Movement of Democratic Socialists is a political party in Greece established on 3 January 2015 by George Papandreou after splitting from the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). The party officially uses To Kinima as the party's name abbreviation,although several media outlets and opinion pollsters have referred to it using the acronym KIDISO (ΚΙΔΗΣΟ).
Achaea is a constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. It corresponds to Achaea Prefecture and elects eight members of parliament. The members of the prominent Papandreou politician family come from this constituency.
The Socialism in Greece has a significant history,with various activists,politicians and political parties identifying as socialist. Socialist movements in Greece began to form around the early 20th century,including the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) (1920–present),the Socialist Party of Greece (1920-1953) and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). Socialist ideology is present within the political party Syriza which forms the current opposition in Greece,also known as the Coalition of the Radical Left.
