New Democracy party

The president of SYRIZA, Sokratis Famellos, expressed his support for a presidential candidate from the progressive space during the first meeting of the party's newly composed executive committee on Monday.

The ruling New Democracy party announced on Monday three new candidates for the 2027 parliamentary elections.

According to Article 31 of the Constitution, anyone can be elected President of the Republic provided they are a Greek citizen for at least five years, are of Greek descent from either their father or mother, are at least 40 years old, and have the legal capacity to vote.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decisively locked in his decision to lead Greece through to 2025 and beyond, insisting that his government will not call early elections.

Greece's political landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as voter realignments highlight intensified movement across party lines, six months after the June 2023 national elections.

Data from rolling surveys commissioned by the prime minister's office paint a vivid picture of diminishing partisan loyalty and swelling volatility within the electoral base.

A new nationwide survey conducted by Pulse shows the ruling conservative New Democracy party maintaining a significant lead, while socialist PASOK, now the main opposition party following defections from the leftist SYRIZA party, remains steady in second place.

That the mood inside the parliamentary group of the New Democracy has been different for a long time was easily realised, seeing the image of the “blue” MPs standing up in Parliament to applaud the announcements of Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the intervention on bank charges, on the support of low pensioners and the military, commitments which were specified yesterday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed Greek-Turkish relations, the New Democracy party, and the electoral law for 2027, speaking on the second day of the "50 Years of Greek Foreign Policy" conference hosted by the Greek newspaper To Vima.

In his first public comments since being expelled from the New Democracy party, former Greek PM Antonis Samaras launched a fierce attack on the government, particularly its foreign policy.

Greece's presidential elections have often acted as a trigger for major political developments. In 1980, for example, Konstantinos Karamanlis' transition from prime minister to president was accompanied by a broad realignment of the political landscape.