2022 Piraean general election

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The 2022 Piraean general election are scheduled to take place during 11 September 2022 and will vote a new Piraean Senate and the person who, after gaining the confidence, will hold the office of the Piraea for the next four years. These will be the 14th elections to take place in Piraea since the return of democracy.

Elections were announced by the Chairwoman of the Presidency, Stella Davakis, after she was informed by the then Premier, Stamatios Panopoulos, to call elections after having served a full term.^[1] The campaign period is predicted to see a stronger position Georgios Konstantinou, leader of the People's Party, who positioned himself as the best alternative to the centre-left coalition that governed until then, in an effort to find adepts from a growing Democrats. In the government, the PSEE has yet to held internal elections with different prominent figures in order to vote a successor of Stamatios Panopoulos, who is considered a strong name for the Presidency.

Overview

Politics of Piraea

General elections in Piraea serve to vote the composition of the unicameral Piraean Senate, which is formed by 125 members elected by the population and tasked to elect a Head of Government. Aftr seats are allocated to each party using the Saint-Lague method, the members of the Presidency initiate talks with the leaders of every represented party in order to appoint the person that, according to them, has the capacity to gain the declared confidence of the members of the Senate; in the practise, the Presidency always appoints the leader of the party that received most votes, and it is this person that, through coalitions or negotiations, must achieve the formation of a government. In case the leader does not achieve a successful investiture —that is, not gaining the majority of 61 votes— the Presidency can allow a second party to propose another leader or convene new elections in a term no longer than two months.

Voters in Piraea have the choice between specific candidates inside a party when there are internal elections or vote for the party of their choice during general elections, absentee votes are those in which the voter specified no option and the vote is equally distributed among all parties. There is no law against independent candidates, but as of 2022, there are none registered. The electoral system of Piraea does not enforce an election threshold.

Election date

The date of the current election was agreed by the Premier Panopoulos and Stella Davakis, Chairwoman of the Presidency. Dates are often set having in consideration the internal processes of all parties aiming to dispute the election. The Piraean law does not specify dates for electoral processes, but these tend to be announced with anticipation by the Head of Government. During the midday of the 26th of January, the two highest political figures of Piraea announced that the date was the 11th September, with the law that enables such day having passed the same day during an extraordinary Senate session.

Background

Leadership changes

Stefania Koura (left) and Christoforos Argyras (right) are the candidates during the socialist primary.

The PSEE was the only party that needed a primary election to choose a new leadership, after the resignation of Stamatios Panopoulos who was considered a strong name for the Presidential elections to happen next year. The 12th of May, the ministers of Economy and Public Function, Christoforos Argyras, and Employment and Social Security, Stefania Koura, resigned to their posts in the government. The socialist election is set to occur next 1st June 2022.