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Greece Parliament Elections 2004
The Greece Parliament Elections are scheduled for March 7, 2004. The main competation will be between the two rival political parties - PASOK and New Democracy.
The PASOK party is led by Costas Simitis who was a two-term Greek Prime Minister who announced recently that Foreign Minister George Papandreou – will assume the government’s reins if PASOK wins the election.
The New Democracy(ND) party is led by Costas Karamanlis.
It may be remembered, Greece will hold the 2004 Olympic Games of Athens between August 13-29, 2004
Greece Politics
A new republican constitution took effect in 1975. In 1986 parliament acted to reduce the powers of the president. Greece’s president, who is elected by parliament for a five-year term, is head of state. The prime minister is appointed by the president and is head of government. The national parliament (Vouli) has 300 members, elected by a form of proportional representation for a four-year term.
The 1975 constitution includes extensive specific guarantees of civil liberties and vests the powers of the head of state in an indirectly elected president, who is advised by the Council of the Republic. The prime minister and cabinet play the central role in the political process, while the president performs some governmental functions in addition to ceremonial duties. The president is elected by parliament to a 5-year term and can be reelected once.
Members of Greece's unicameral parliament (the Vouli ton Ellinon) are elected by secret ballot for a maximum of 4 years, but elections can be called earlier. Greece uses a complex reinforced proportional representation electoral system which discourages splinter parties and makes a parliamentary majority possible even if the leading party falls short of a majority of the popular vote. A party must receive 3% of the total national vote to qualify for one of the 300 parliamentary seats.
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