Context shots: unpacking the 2023 General Elections in Greece

The national elections of May 21st led to a historic victory of the conservative Nea Dimokratia, seem to have reshuffled the political landscape in the country, yet Greece is set for a second election in a month time. Michalis Goudis, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Thessaloniki Office - Greece, provides a read of the election result.

It becomes obvious that the experience of the purest system of proportional representation ever used in Greece not only did not push the electorate towards adopting a different model of political power distribution, but will ultimately reinforce institutional centralization. Article by Ιannis Konstantinidis, Associate Professor, University of Macedonia.

This is the transcription of a Twitter Space on the elections in Greece with Jan Philipp Albrecht, president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Vula Tsetsi, General Secretary of the European Greens Group in the European Parliament, and Michalis Goudis, director of the Böll Foundation office in Thessaloniki.

Three far-right parties are represented in the Greek parliament after the national elections of 25 June 2023. This institutional representation, combined with the sum of their electoral power, produces de facto political consequences. In this article, political scientists Lamprini Rori and Vasiliki Georgiadou map these three parties, analyse their positions and trace their spots within the context of this specific party family.