New Democracy leadership election, 2015–16

Main opposition interim New Democracy (ND) party leader Evangelos Meimarakis is to remain as party leader following crisis talks that took place within the conservative party until late on Monday night.

One day after the cancellation of the elections for the new leader of New Democracy and the turmoil caused afterwards, the candidates and those responsible for the organization of the election process continue to blame each other and make announcements revealing a great gap among New Democracy executives.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy Party leader Evangelos Meimarakis said the problems that arose during the voting of the New Democracy party’s elections was purely “technical and should not have been politicized.” Making statements outside the conservative party headquarters at Syngrou Street on Monday morning, he said: “I entered this process showing respect to my fellow candidates a

The main opposition conservative New Democracy party decided to call off its leadership election that was due to take place on Sunday, November 22, due to technical problems that prevented voters from casting their ballots. The party’s electoral committee decided to postpone the voting procedure after the fiasco was noted.

The elections for the new leader of New Democracy party were postponed due to major technical problems in the online registration system of voters which could not be fixed.

The election process for the new leader of New Democracy party should have been started since 7 am on Sunday in 833 polling stations, but polls are not opened yet due to technical problems.

According to information, there are problems with the online system and voters who wanted to vote early in the morning left the polling stations irritated.

There is a waning interest in the voting process for the head of the main opposition New Democracy party set to take place on November 22.

885 voting centers have been set up in Greece and abroad with 1,284 polling booths in Greece and 44 abroad, however it is expected that few people will show up to vote for a party leader from the four candidates:

Greece’s main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is set to elect its new leader on November 22, the party’s central election committee announced on Thursday.

If a second round of vote is needed, it will be held the following Sunday, on November 29.

New Democracy (ND) spokesman Costas Karagounis on Tuesday submitted his resignation to party leader Evangelos Meimarakis for typical reasons.

The election committee of New Democracy reconsidered the rejection of Adonis Georgiadis’s candidacy during today’s meeting and decided to accept his submission.