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| type              = parliamentary
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| ongoing            = yes
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| previous_election  = 2020 Piraean regional elections
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| seats_for_election = 195 seats in the regional parliaments of [[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]]
| seats_for_election = 195 seats in the regional parliaments of [[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]]
| registered        = 4,474,936
| registered        = 4,474,936
| turnout            =  
| turnout            = 3,090,513 (69%; {{increase}} 2.1{{wp|Percentage point|pp}})
| election_date      = 9 July 2023
| election_date      = 9 July 2023


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Regional elections will be held in [[Piraea]] to elect 195 seats in the {{wp|regional parliaments}} of 4 regions —[[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]]—, which will conclude with the election of new Minister-Presidents. They will be held simultaneously with the local elections in cities and provinces.
'''Regional elections''' or '''Super Saturday''' ({{wp|Greek language|Piraean}}: ''Σούπερ Κυριακή'') as media named it, were held in [[Piraea]] to elect 195 seats in the {{wp|regional parliaments}} of 4 regions—[[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]]—concluding with the election of new Minister-Presidents. They were held simultaneously with the local elections in cities and provinces.
 
Elections were marked by an early end of campaign, after a human remains were found in an Army base. The campaign saw the creation of a new sector to the right of the [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]], which forced the collapse of [[Homeland]], with many of its former members abandoning the formation.<ref>[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40645212#p40645212|"@INafte"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 1 June 2023.</ref> Sectors of the centre were rapidly affected, accelerating a trend started during the [[2022 Piraean general election|2022 general election]], which concluded with [[Democrats (Piraea)|Democrats]] staying out of two of the new regional legislatures. The [[PSEE]] was severely harmed and lost the majority in Souda Riviera, while it suffered an important vote regression in Sitia being equalised with the {{wp|centre-right}} in number of seats. The party of government, the People's Party, won an {{wp|absolute majority}} in the legislature of Foinikas, became the first force in the Souda Riviera and is capable of forming a government in the region of Sitia.
 
Several political analysts have pointed to the regional elections as the end of ''[[Percederation]]'' in the Piraean politics, with the People's Party returning to be an effective first power in the political space of the liberal centre-right.<ref>{{cite news |last=Panagas, Vassallide-Zurlladi, Malatos|first=Andrianos, Pavlina, Lazaros |date=2023-09-07 |title=The People's Party considers ''percederation'' to be terminated |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40750314#p40750314 |work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> Following the general elections, the government announced changes in the structure of the cabinet, with a reduction of ministers, and the addition of [[Konstantinou government|Nicholaos Pierrakis]] to the new portfolio of [[Konstantinou government|Finance, Budget and Public Function]]; [[Georgios Konstantinou]] has also stated the intentions of holding a {{wp|snap election}}, although no date has been proposed yet.<ref>[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40739171#p40739171|"@sFPiraea"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 10 July 2023.</ref>
==Electoral date==
==Electoral date==
The election day might vary in every region of Piraea, as in some cases, Minister-Presidents might dissolve the regional legislature to serve a new four year-term. This is the case of [[Samariá]], which held elections in 2020 inaugurating a completely new set of four years. In [[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]], the date must follow the rule of the second Sunday of July.  
The election day might vary in every region of Piraea, as in some cases, Minister-Presidents might dissolve the regional legislature to serve a new four year-term. This is the case of [[Samariá]], which held elections in 2020 inaugurating a completely new set of four years. In [[Foinikas]], [[Sitia]], [[Lampi]] and [[Souda Riviera]], the date must follow the rule of the second Sunday of July.  
==Campaign==
==Campaign==
===General Council of the Judiciary deadlock===
During the final months of 2022, the Minister of Justice, [[People's Party (Piraea)|Christoforos Kostopoulos-Kolokotronis]], expressed the government's concern for the expiral date of several members of the [[Piraea|General Council of the Judiciary]], setting a date to produce an agreement with the [[PSEE]] that could renovate the mandates.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ballakos |first=Sara |date=2022-12-20 |title=The General Council of the Judiciary fails to find key of its renovation |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418954&p=40202535&sid=dd420062a5e39ab53b403329ebf29afe#p40202535 |work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> However, during the first months of 2023, the inability of the [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] and the [[PSEE]] to dialogue, elevated the tensions between the two forces.
Following the election of the [[Presidency of Piraea]] —in which the PSEE was not able to reach the votes for its candidates in the [[Piraean Senate|Senate]]—,<ref>{{cite news |last=Samaras |first=Maria Pia |date=2023-02-12 |title=The new Presidency, elected amid unprecedented tension |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418954&p=40337136#p40337136 |work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> a number of socialist members of the senate grouped together to ask the dismissal of [[Eleftheria Rodiales]] from the General Secretary of the party.<ref>[https://https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=457269&p=40352018#p40352018|"@INafte"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 16 February 2023.</ref> A month later, the party chose the former Minister of Infrastructure during the [[Panopoulos government]], [[Antonis Moustakopoulos]], to succeed Rodiales <ref>{{cite news |last=Parallelis, Kouridis |first=Dorothea, Herakles |date=2023-03-24 |title=The socialist left falls for Antonis Moustakopoulos |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418954&p=40448176#p40448176|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> amid record lows in opinion polls. <ref>{{cite news |last=Samaras |first=Antonis |date=2023-03-16 |title=LK sorpasso consolidates party's line in government |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40350654#p40350654|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref>
In March, the situation of the magistrature covered headlines once again, after a number of negotiations between the two parties failed and the conservative magistrate [[Romulos Kapos-Tanou]] renounced to his position denouncing a lack of credibility in the institution and the harm of the deadlock.<ref>{{cite news |last=Samaras |first=Antonis |date=2023-03-24 |title=The renounce of Kapos-Tanou deepens the crisis inside the General Council of the Judiciary |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418954&p=40459775#p40459775|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> The People's Party accused the opposition from blocking a crucial institution, while the PSEE considered the LK conditions for renovation unfavourable for {{wp|state of law}} adding that the conservative party was changing judges to their own benefit. The crisis forced the Presidency to mediate between the two, and draft a possible route map to elect the new members of the magistrature as well as change the law through which judges get to be chosen.<ref>{{cite news |last=Parallelis, Kouridis |first=Dorothea, Herakles |date=2023-03-30 |title=The Presidency chooses to mediate in the General Council of the Judiciary |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418954&p=40465484#p40465484|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref>
===Electoral campaign===
[[File:Legislative Election 2023-Syriza.jpg|230px|thumb|A PSEE rally in Kissamos, [[Souda Riviera]].]]
In the period prior to the beginning of the official campaign, political parties and government started sending their messages to their possible electorates and the polarisation of national politics was introduced into the regional sphere. The pre-campaign period was marked, not only by the judicial deadlock, but also by the consolidation of the People's Party post-[[Percederation]], reaffirming the results of the [[2022 Piraean general election|2022 general election]]; this hurt the rest of the {{wp|centre-right}}, affecting mostly [[Democrats (Piraea)|Democrats]], which is in a process of considering merging with the People's Party in a number of regions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tarssouti-Lakis |first=Aristotelis |date=2023-05-04 |title=Theodoreas stages the possibilities of a Democrats merge with LK |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40478389#p40478389|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref>
[[File:El centro de atención (2310572755).jpg|230px|thumb|left|A start of campaign rally led by [[People's Party (Piraea)|Ignatios Anthou-Pavlides]], candidate in the [[Souda Riviera]]. ]]
The electoral campaign started with an internal crisis in the {{wp|far-right}} party [[Homeland (Piraea)|Homeland]], leading to the formation of [[Force Piraea]] by a number of former Homeland Members of the Senate.  During the start of the campaign, the [[2023 Weranian federal election]] was seen as an important factor of change for the People's Party, as its outcome could define the future of Piraea's accession to the [[Euclean Community]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Nussbaum |first=Carsten |date=2023-04-15 |title=Election 2023 — The Euclean Dimension|url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40598018#p40598018|work=Der Staatsmann |access-date=}}</ref> at the same time, [[Konstantinou government]]'s received internal pressure from sectors of the party, after former premier [[Evangelos Polakis]] supported the party's candidate in [[Sitia]], [[Eliza Andreadoglou]], in a rally that counted with numerous critics to the current premier. <ref>{{cite news |last=Pecressoulou |first=Valerie |date=2023-05-15 |title=Polakis stages the return to politics in Sitia|url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40598513#p40598513|work=I Naftemporiki |access-date=}}</ref> Following Werania's election,<ref>[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40647590#p40647590|"@ONR"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 2 June 2023.</ref> the newspaper I Naftemporiki  revealed that the government considered holding a {{wp|snap election}} in the upcoming months after the regional elections take place, in order to get closer to the {{wp|absolute majority}} in the [[Piraean Senate]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Mourrisetou |first=Alanis |date=2023-06-05 |title=Grows the pressure on the Government to determine if there will be elections|url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40654332#p40654332|work=ΠΡΤ |access-date=}}</ref> The government finally revealed the decision, considering the deadlock in the justice and the need to pass extensive policy in order to cope with EC deadlines.
The decision to hold a snap election has been criticised by the {{wp|centre-left}} and sectors to the centre of the People's Party, for being favourable to the People's Party, taking the campaign period to cover numerous issues that were far from the regional sphere.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fergouli Roudi-Xanthis |first=Louisa |date=2023-06-25 |title=Campaign in the most national regional elections |url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=40701562#p40701562|work=Sphère Financière |access-date=}}</ref> During 5 July, an investigation led by the [[Piraea|Piraean National Commission for Human Rights]] in the 9th division of the Army, found {{wp|human remains}} of what could be a {{wp|forced disappearance}} from the [[Second Piraean Republic]].<ref>[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=4&t=457269&p=40726764#p40726764|"@sFPiraea"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 5 July 2023.</ref> The campaign was suspended by the executive and the rest of political parties.<ref>[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=4&t=457269&p=40726764#p40726764|"@sFPiraea"]. ''{{wp|Twitter|Chirper}}''. 5 July 2023.</ref>
==Regional governments==
==Regional governments==
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{| class="wikitable"
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| [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] (LK)
| [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] (LK)
| width="1"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#2989CE"|
|  
| style="background:#C2E2F8;" | [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] (LK)
|-
|-
| [[Souda Riviera]]
| [[Souda Riviera]]
| width="1" bgcolor="#EF1C27"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#EF1C27"|
| [[Piraese Socialist Workers Union|Piraese Socialist Workers Union]] (PSEE)
| [[Piraese Socialist Workers Union|Piraese Socialist Workers Union]] (PSEE)
| width="1"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#2989CE"|
|  
| style="background:#C2E2F8;" | [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] (LK)
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|-
| [[Sitia]]
| [[Sitia]]
| width="1" bgcolor="#EF1C27"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#EF1C27"|
| [[Piraese Socialist Workers Union|Piraese Socialist Workers Union]] (PSEE)
| [[Piraese Socialist Workers Union|Piraese Socialist Workers Union]] (PSEE)
| width="1"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#2989CE"|
|  
| style="background:#C2E2F8;" | [[People's Party (Piraea)|People's Party]] (LK)
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|-
| [[Lampi]]
| [[Lampi]]
| width="1" bgcolor="#E9008C"|
| width="1" bgcolor="#E9008C"|
| [[Independent Regionalist Union (Piraea)|Independent Regionalist Union]] (APE)
| [[Independent Regionalist Union (Piraea)|Independent Regionalist Union]] (APE)
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| width="1" bgcolor="#EF1C27"|
|  
| style="background:#FFCFBF;" |[[Piraese Socialist Workers Union|Piraese Socialist Workers Union]]  (PSEE)
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! colspan="5"| Do not vote
! colspan="5"| Does not vote
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| [[Samariá]]
| [[Samariá]]
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==Overall results==
==Overall results==
===Foinikas===
===Foinikas===
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===Lampi===
===Lampi===
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===Sitia===
===Sitia===
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===Souda Riviera===
===Souda Riviera===
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|party3=[[Popular Unity Candidacy (Piraea)|Popular Unity Candidacy]]|color3=#B41062|votes3=200691|seats3=7|sc3=New
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|party5=[[Democrats (Piraea)|Democrats]]|color5=#0083CB|votes5=40138|seats5=1|sc5={{decrease}}6
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==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
==Notes==
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 23:27, 16 July 2023

2023 Piraean regional elections
← 2020 9 July 2023 2027 →
195 seats in the regional parliaments of Foinikas, Sitia, Lampi and Souda Riviera
Registered4,474,936
Turnout3,090,513 (69%; Increase 2.1pp)
Piraea 2020 Regional Elections.png
Regional administrations before the 2023 regional elections
     PSEE-led government
     LK-led government
          PSEE-YLE-coalition government
               PSEE-YLE-APE-coalition government
Most voted in Piraea regional 2023.png

Regional elections or Super Saturday (Piraean: Σούπερ Κυριακή) as media named it, were held in Piraea to elect 195 seats in the regional parliaments of 4 regions—Foinikas, Sitia, Lampi and Souda Riviera—concluding with the election of new Minister-Presidents. They were held simultaneously with the local elections in cities and provinces.

Elections were marked by an early end of campaign, after a human remains were found in an Army base. The campaign saw the creation of a new sector to the right of the People's Party, which forced the collapse of Homeland, with many of its former members abandoning the formation.[1] Sectors of the centre were rapidly affected, accelerating a trend started during the 2022 general election, which concluded with Democrats staying out of two of the new regional legislatures. The PSEE was severely harmed and lost the majority in Souda Riviera, while it suffered an important vote regression in Sitia being equalised with the centre-right in number of seats. The party of government, the People's Party, won an absolute majority in the legislature of Foinikas, became the first force in the Souda Riviera and is capable of forming a government in the region of Sitia.

Several political analysts have pointed to the regional elections as the end of Percederation in the Piraean politics, with the People's Party returning to be an effective first power in the political space of the liberal centre-right.[2] Following the general elections, the government announced changes in the structure of the cabinet, with a reduction of ministers, and the addition of Nicholaos Pierrakis to the new portfolio of Finance, Budget and Public Function; Georgios Konstantinou has also stated the intentions of holding a snap election, although no date has been proposed yet.[3]

Electoral date

The election day might vary in every region of Piraea, as in some cases, Minister-Presidents might dissolve the regional legislature to serve a new four year-term. This is the case of Samariá, which held elections in 2020 inaugurating a completely new set of four years. In Foinikas, Sitia, Lampi and Souda Riviera, the date must follow the rule of the second Sunday of July.

Campaign

General Council of the Judiciary deadlock

During the final months of 2022, the Minister of Justice, Christoforos Kostopoulos-Kolokotronis, expressed the government's concern for the expiral date of several members of the General Council of the Judiciary, setting a date to produce an agreement with the PSEE that could renovate the mandates.[4] However, during the first months of 2023, the inability of the People's Party and the PSEE to dialogue, elevated the tensions between the two forces.

Following the election of the Presidency of Piraea —in which the PSEE was not able to reach the votes for its candidates in the Senate—,[5] a number of socialist members of the senate grouped together to ask the dismissal of Eleftheria Rodiales from the General Secretary of the party.[6] A month later, the party chose the former Minister of Infrastructure during the Panopoulos government, Antonis Moustakopoulos, to succeed Rodiales [7] amid record lows in opinion polls. [8]

In March, the situation of the magistrature covered headlines once again, after a number of negotiations between the two parties failed and the conservative magistrate Romulos Kapos-Tanou renounced to his position denouncing a lack of credibility in the institution and the harm of the deadlock.[9] The People's Party accused the opposition from blocking a crucial institution, while the PSEE considered the LK conditions for renovation unfavourable for state of law adding that the conservative party was changing judges to their own benefit. The crisis forced the Presidency to mediate between the two, and draft a possible route map to elect the new members of the magistrature as well as change the law through which judges get to be chosen.[10]

Electoral campaign

A PSEE rally in Kissamos, Souda Riviera.

In the period prior to the beginning of the official campaign, political parties and government started sending their messages to their possible electorates and the polarisation of national politics was introduced into the regional sphere. The pre-campaign period was marked, not only by the judicial deadlock, but also by the consolidation of the People's Party post-Percederation, reaffirming the results of the 2022 general election; this hurt the rest of the centre-right, affecting mostly Democrats, which is in a process of considering merging with the People's Party in a number of regions.[11]

A start of campaign rally led by Ignatios Anthou-Pavlides, candidate in the Souda Riviera.

The electoral campaign started with an internal crisis in the far-right party Homeland, leading to the formation of Force Piraea by a number of former Homeland Members of the Senate. During the start of the campaign, the 2023 Weranian federal election was seen as an important factor of change for the People's Party, as its outcome could define the future of Piraea's accession to the Euclean Community;[12] at the same time, Konstantinou government's received internal pressure from sectors of the party, after former premier Evangelos Polakis supported the party's candidate in Sitia, Eliza Andreadoglou, in a rally that counted with numerous critics to the current premier. [13] Following Werania's election,[14] the newspaper I Naftemporiki revealed that the government considered holding a snap election in the upcoming months after the regional elections take place, in order to get closer to the absolute majority in the Piraean Senate.[15] The government finally revealed the decision, considering the deadlock in the justice and the need to pass extensive policy in order to cope with EC deadlines.

The decision to hold a snap election has been criticised by the centre-left and sectors to the centre of the People's Party, for being favourable to the People's Party, taking the campaign period to cover numerous issues that were far from the regional sphere.[16] During 5 July, an investigation led by the Piraean National Commission for Human Rights in the 9th division of the Army, found human remains of what could be a forced disappearance from the Second Piraean Republic.[17] The campaign was suspended by the executive and the rest of political parties.[18]

Regional governments

Region Current control New control
9 July
Foinikas People's Party (LK) People's Party (LK)
Souda Riviera Piraese Socialist Workers Union (PSEE) People's Party (LK)
Sitia Piraese Socialist Workers Union (PSEE) People's Party (LK)
Lampi Independent Regionalist Union (APE) Piraese Socialist Workers Union (PSEE)
Does not vote
Samariá Green Alternative (PEL)

Participating parties

Candidacy Leading candidates
Foinikas, Lampi, Sitia, Souda Riviera 		Ideology Previous result Gov.
Votes (%) Seats
LK
Pavlos Geroulanos.jpg
EPP Political Assembly 6-7 September 2021, Brussels (51430907270) (cropped).jpg
Luisa Fernanda Rudi 2015 (cropped).jpg
Javierarenaspp (cropped).jpg
 Liberal conservatism
Economic liberalism
Christian democracy 		— — ☑Y X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg
PSEE
Ángel Villalba (cropped).jpg
CoR Members portraits - 50037662707 (cropped).jpg
José Antonio Griñán 2012 (cropped)-2.jpg
Rena Dourou May 2015.jpg
 Progressivism
Social democracy
Secularism
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg ☑Y ☑Y ☑Y
YLE
Petros S. Kokkalis (48758953882) (cropped).jpg
Despoina Charalampidou May 2015.jpg
2014-07-01-Europaparlament Dimitrios Papadimoulis by Olaf Kosinsky -11.jpg
Marios Garoyian (cropped).jpg
 Progressivism
Green politics
Democratic socialism
Socialism
Councilism (factions)
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg ☑Y X mark.svg X mark.svg
AK
Ugo Cappellacci 2009.jpg
Aleka Papariga 2009 (cropped).jpg
Anna Finocchiaro.jpg
 Centrist politics
Humanism
Social liberalism
Liberalism
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg
APE
Ioanna Kontouli.jpg
Inés Sabanés en un acto en Hortaleza (por Felix Moreno).jpg
Daniel Pérez Calvo 2019 (cropped).jpg
 Regionalism
Federalism
Environmentalism
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg ☑Y X mark.svg X mark.svg
AL
Alejandro Fernández 2018 (cropped).jpg
Dalya itzik.jpg
Οι κ.κ. Κωστής Χατζηδάκης και Κώστας Μπακογιάννης έκαναν τα εγκαίνια του Eco Fest 2020 - YouTube - 18-01-20.png
 Centrist politics
Anti-corruption
Third option
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg
DM
Teofilamartinez (cropped).jpg
Raffaele Fitto 2020 (cropped).jpg
2010-10-03-quadriga-vicky-leandros2.jpg
 Economic liberalism
Social liberalism
Centrism
Pro-Eucleanism 		— — X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg
NNS/NLK
Irena Majcen 2016.jpg
Informal meeting Vrtovec (cropped).jpg
 Sotirian Democracy
Big-Tent
Minority interests
Novalian interests
Populism 		— — ☑Y X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg
DP Right-wing populism
Social conservatism
Nationalism 		— — X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg X mark.svg

Overall results

Foinikas

Foinikas 2023.png
PartyPartySecond roundSeats+/–
Votes%Votes%
People's Party171,17950.9025Increase2
Piraese Socialist Workers Union88,78426.4011Decrease1
Popular Unity Candidacy33,63010.004New
Change10,7613.201Decrease2
Democrats2,3540.700Decrease4
Independent Regionalist Union13,4524.002Steady0
Novalian People's Party16,1424.802Steady0
Total336,302100.004545
Valid votes336,30298.0400.00
Invalid/blank votes6,7261.964,183100.00
Total votes343,028100.004,183100.00
Registered voters/turnout548,62362.53

Lampi

Lampi 2023.png
PartyPartySecond roundSeats+/–
Votes%Votes%
People's Party50,43423.488Steady0
Piraese Socialist Workers Union63,14429.409Decrease1
Popular Unity Candidacy33,63015.663New
Humanist Centre9,2804.322Increase1
Independent Regionalist Union41,15419.165Decrease4
Novalian People's Party7,4643.481Decrease2
Force Piraea9,6834.512New
Total214,789100.003030
Valid votes214,78997.0800.00
Invalid/blank votes6,4552.924,183100.00
Total votes221,244100.004,183100.00
Registered voters/turnout297,55174.35

Sitia

Sitia 2023.png
PartyPartySecond roundSeats+/–
Votes%Votes%
People's Party218,76740.1022Increase2
Piraese Socialist Workers Union229,13242.0022Decrease1
Popular Unity Candidacy21,8224.003New
Change15,2752.801Decrease2
Democrats10,9112.000Decrease3
Independent Regionalist Union2,7270.500Decrease2
Humanist Centre22,9134.205Increase2
Force Piraea24,0044.402New
Total545,551100.005555
Valid votes545,55198.2300.00
Invalid/blank votes9,8191.774,183100.00
Total votes555,370100.004,183100.00
Registered voters/turnout753,52873.70

Souda Riviera

Souda Riviera 2023.png
PartyPartySecond roundSeats+/–
Votes%Votes%
People's Party826,84841.2029Increase3
Piraese Socialist Workers Union610,10130.4021Decrease4
Popular Unity Candidacy200,69110.007New
Change80,2764.003Decrease2
Democrats40,1382.001Decrease6
Humanist Centre168,5808.406Increase1
Force Piraea80,2764.003New
Total2,006,910100.007055
Valid votes2,006,91097.5600.00
Invalid/blank votes50,1722.444,183100.00
Total votes2,057,082100.004,183100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,875,23471.54

Aftermath

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "@INafte". Chirper. 1 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Panagas, Vassallide-Zurlladi, Malatos, Andrianos, Pavlina, Lazaros (2023-09-07). "The People's Party considers percederation to be terminated". I Naftemporiki.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "@sFPiraea". Chirper. 10 July 2023.
  4. ↑ Ballakos, Sara (2022-12-20). "The General Council of the Judiciary fails to find key of its renovation". I Naftemporiki.
  5. ↑ Samaras, Maria Pia (2023-02-12). "The new Presidency, elected amid unprecedented tension". I Naftemporiki.
  6. ↑ "@INafte". Chirper. 16 February 2023.
  7. ↑ Parallelis, Kouridis, Dorothea, Herakles (2023-03-24). "The socialist left falls for Antonis Moustakopoulos". I Naftemporiki.
  8. ↑ Samaras, Antonis (2023-03-16). "LK sorpasso consolidates party's line in government". I Naftemporiki.
  9. ↑ Samaras, Antonis (2023-03-24). "The renounce of Kapos-Tanou deepens the crisis inside the General Council of the Judiciary". I Naftemporiki.
  10. ↑ Parallelis, Kouridis, Dorothea, Herakles (2023-03-30). "The Presidency chooses to mediate in the General Council of the Judiciary". I Naftemporiki.
  11. ↑ Tarssouti-Lakis, Aristotelis (2023-05-04). "Theodoreas stages the possibilities of a Democrats merge with LK". I Naftemporiki.
  12. ↑ Nussbaum, Carsten (2023-04-15). "Election 2023 — The Euclean Dimension". Der Staatsmann.
  13. ↑ Pecressoulou, Valerie (2023-05-15). "Polakis stages the return to politics in Sitia". I Naftemporiki.
  14. ↑ "@ONR". Chirper. 2 June 2023.
  15. ↑ Mourrisetou, Alanis (2023-06-05). "Grows the pressure on the Government to determine if there will be elections". ΠΡΤ.
  16. ↑ Fergouli Roudi-Xanthis, Louisa (2023-06-25). "Campaign in the most national regional elections". Sphère Financière.
  17. ↑ "@sFPiraea". Chirper. 5 July 2023.
  18. ↑ "@sFPiraea". Chirper. 5 July 2023.
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