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Greek legislative election, June 2012
← May 2012 17 June 2012 (2012-06-17)
All 300 seats of the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Antonis Samaras Alexis Tsipras Evangelos Venizelos
Party ND Coalition of the Radical Left PASOK
Leader since 30 November 2009 9 February 2008 18 March 2012
Last election 108 seats, 18.85% 52 seats, 16.78% 41 seats, 13.18%
Current seats 108 52 41
 
Leader Panos Kammenos Aleka Papariga Nikolaos Michaloliakos
Party ANEL KKE ΧΑ
Leader since 3 April 2012 27 February 1991 1 November 1993
Last election 33 seats, 10.60% 26 seats, 8.48% 21 seats, 6.97%
Current seats 33 26 21
 
Leader Fotis Kouvelis
Party DIMAR
Leader since 27 June 2010
Last election 19 seats, 6.11%
Current seats 19
Incumbent Prime Minister

Panagiotis Pikrammenos
(acting)
Independent



A new legislative election in Greece is scheduled to be held on Sunday 17 June 2012,[1] asking the voters once again to elect all 300 members to the Hellenic Parliament in accordance with the constitution, after a coalition government was unable to be formed following the May election. The constitution directs the head of state to dissolve a newly elected parliament, if all constitutional attempts to form a new government fail, and then call for new parliamentary elections within 30 days after having dissolved the parliament.

Background

By section 37 of the Constitution, the President of the Republic shall consecutively give the leaders of the three largest parties in Parliament an exploratory mandate to set up a government within three days, until one leader succeeds. If none does, "the President of the Republic shall summon all party leaders, and if the impossibility to form a Cabinet enjoying the confidence of the Parliament is confirmed, he shall attempt to form a Cabinet composed of all parties in Parliament for the purpose of holding parliamentary elections. If this fails, he shall entrust the President of the Supreme Administrative Court or of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court or of the Court of Auditors to form a Cabinet as widely accepted as possible to carry out elections and dissolve Parliament."[2]

May election

Main article: Greek legislative election, May 2012

At the 6 May election, no party won an absolute majority of seats. President Karolos Papoulias, in accordance with the constitution, offered successive exploratory mandates to the leaders of the three largest parties: Antonis Samaras of New Democracy (ND), Alexis Tsipras of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), and Evangelos Venizelos of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). Each in turn failed to form a government and returned their mandates to the President.[3]

On 13 May the President, followed the terms of Section 37 of the constitution and met with all party leaders in an attempt to find a way to form a majority government.[4] Upon its failure the president would then entrust the President of the Supreme Administrative Court or of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court or of the Court of Auditors to form a Cabinet as widely accepted as possible to carry out elections and dissolves Parliament."[5]

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the election would be a referendum on Greece's continuation as a member of the eurozone. "If Greece—and this is the will of the great majority—wants to stay in the euro, then they have to accept the conditions," he said. "Otherwise it isn’t possible. No responsible candidate can hide that from the electorate."[6]

Incumbent parliament

Main article: List of members of the Hellenic Parliament, May–June 2012
Greek debt crisis

Election articles:

Greek government debt crisis articles:

Seven parties were elected at the May 2012 election, but this Parliament was short-lived as a coalition government could not be formed and elections were called.

Distribution of seats in parliament May election
Official parties
  New Democracy (ND) 108
  Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) 52
  Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) 41
  Independent Greeks (ANEL) 33
  Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 26
  Golden Dawn (XA) 21
  Democratic Left (DIMAR) 19

Opinion polls

Many of the early polls showed SYRIZA taking the lead in popular support, ahead of ND and PASOK.[7][8]

Date conducted Company ND/DISY SYRIZA PASOK ANEL KKE XA DIMAR DX/DRASI-FS OP LAOS Others Undecided/blank
6 May 2012 Previous election 18.85 2.55 16.78 13.18 10.60 8.48 6.97 6.11 2.15 1.80 2.93 2.90 6.70 Adjusted
8–9 May[9] Marc/Alpha 20.3 1.5 27.7 12.6 10.2 7.0 5.7 4.9 1.8 1.3 1.7 2.3 3.0 Adjusted
9–10 May[10] Metron 21.7 1.9 25.5 14.6 10.5 5.3 4.7 5.4 1.8 1.6 2.6 1.8 2.6 Adjusted
9–10 May[10] Metron 17.3 1.5 20.3 11.6 8.4 4.2 3.7 4.3 1.4 1.2 2.1 1.4 2.1 Undecided: 15.2, Abstain: 5.2
(12 May)[11] Kapa 18.1 2.5 20.5 12.2 8.4 6.5 5.8 5.0 2.2 1.3 2.5 2.4 1.7 Undecided: 10.9
10–11 May[12] Rass 19.4 2.4 20.5 11.8 7.8 4.8 3.8 6.2 2.3 N/A 1.8 2.0 3.7 Undecided: 11.3, Abstain: 2.2
(16 May)[13] Pulse RC 19.5 1.5 22 14 7.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 2 Undecided: 8.0, Abstain: 3.0
(16 May)[13] Pulse RC 21.5 2 24.5 15.5 8 6 6 6 2 2 2 2 2.5 Adjusted
(17 May)[14][15] Marc/Alpha 23.1 1.4 21.0 13.2 7.2 5.1 4.3 5.6 1.8 0.9 1.6 1.3 2.0 Undecided: 8.7, Abstain: 2.8
15–17 May[16] Public Issue 24 N/A 28 15 8 5 4.5 7 3 N/A 1.5 N/A 4 Adjusted
16–17 May[17][18] Metron 19.7 N/A 20.8 14.4 6.5 4.8 4 5.2 2.3 N/A N/A 1.5 3.6 Undecided: 11.5, Abstain: 5.6
??-18 May[19] Rass 20.2 2.5 21.7 11.7 7.3 5.5 3.7 6.2 2.0 N/A 1.3 1.9 3.3 Undecided: 10.9, Abstain: 1.8
18–23 May[20][21] Public Issue 26 N/A 30 15.5 8 5 4 6.5 3 N/A N/A N/A 2 Adjusted
21–23 May[22] Data RC 23.5 23.0 10.6 5.3 4.6 5.1 3.3 1.1 0.5 1.1 0.3 1.4 Undecided: 16.1, Abstain: 4.1
21–23 May[22] Data RC 29.4 28.8 13.3 6.6 5.8 6.4 4.1 1.4 0.6 1.4 0.4 1.8 Adjusted
22–24 May[23] VPRC 26 28.5 12.5 7 5 5.5 7 3 2 0.5 3 Adjusted
23–24 May[24][25] Metron 27.0 27.2 14.8 7.2 5.2 4.9 6.2 3.0 1.6 1.2 1.7 Adjusted
23–24 May[26] Rass 23.6 21.4 13.1 5.8 4.8 3.8 6.2 2.4 1.8 0.8 1.7 Undecided: 13.1, Abstain: 1.5
Date conducted Company ND/DISY SYRIZA PASOK ANEL KKE XA DIMAR DX/DRASI-FS OP LAOS Others Undecided/blank
  • Note on varying poll methodology: The polls shown above with figures in yellow lines, recorded raw responses as a percentage of total responses. All the other polls recorded their projected estimate of vote tally, after disregarding all blank votes and abstenties, and after adjusting for "the likely votes" of "undecided voters". The latter method (i.e. used by Public Issue) is commonly preferred, as it emulates the same vote percentage calculation as in the official election. The first method with raw responses, will per definition always result in some relative lower percentage points for all parties (due to the party votes now being divided by the higher figure "total of all responses", instead of divided by the lower figure "total of all valid votes"). Therefore the percentage numbers listed by each of these two methods, are not directly comparable to each other.

Predictions of seats

151 seats needed for majority
Date of the conducted poll
 Company
 ND SYRIZA PASOK ANEL KKE XA DIMAR
8–9 May[9] Marc/Alpha 57 128 36 29 20 16 14
(17 May)[14] Marc/Alpha 123 66 41 23 16 13 18
16–17 May[17] Metron 65 119 48 22 16 13 17
23–24 May[24] Metron 71 121 39 19 13 13 16

Campaign

Even before the election had been called, DIMAR leader Kouvelis stated that DIMAR would likely not want to participate in a SYRIZA-led government even after repeated elections, as SYRIZA had declined to participate in a unity government with ND, PASOK and DIMAR.[27]

Before the election, it was expected that larger parties would try to form alliances with smaller parties; specifically, ND was in negotiations with DISY, while DISY was also negotiating with Drasi,[28] and SYRIZA was trying to form an alliance with Social Agreement.[29][30] There were also rumours of SYRIZA negotiating with the Ecologist Greens and ANTARSYA.[31]

ND and DISY announced an alliance on 21 May,[32][33][34] and Drasi and Recreate Greece also announced an alliance on the same day.[35]

The Democratic Left said that it would only work with SYRIZA on the condition that there were guarantees of staying within the eurozone.[36]

EU influence

An EU summit ended on 24 May with calls for Greece to stick to the terms of the agreement for more funds to tackle its debt problems.[37][38] This followed calls by British Prime Minister David Cameron[39] and purportedly German Chancellor Angela Merkel (claimed by Greek officials,[38] but denied by Merkel[40]) for the election to be a referendum on staying within the eurozone, a move that was criticised by the heads of ND, SYRIZA, PASOK, and KKE; the interim prime minister; and the Greek media[41][42][43] and Tsipiras' tour of European cities[44] to clarify his stance on the bailout and willingness to stay with the eurozone.[45]

See also

References

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greek_legislative_election,_June_2012&diff=next&oldid=495027000

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