Form of Government: Republic; Parliamentary Democracy

Iceland

Finland : 1975 (revised 2001) Sweden Constitution European Union

Norway

Estonia

Latvia Denmark Lithuania Ireland Head of State: Prokopis Pavlopoulos Netherlands United Belarus Kingdom Germany Belgium Ukraine Czech Republic Luxembourg Slovak Republic Moldova Austria Switzerland Hungary : () Romania Prime Minister Slovenia Liechtenstein Croatia

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Spain

Macedonia

Montenegro Turkey Government: Single Minority Government Albania

Cyprus Parliament: Unicameral; Vouli; 300 MPs

Thraki Macedonia

Ipiros Thessalia

Ionian Islands Central Greece and Evvoia

Aegean Islands Peloponnisos

Crete

Centralised unitary state 8 non-elected development regions

Elections in Greece

Until 2012, the Greek party system was dominated by two main parties. On the left, the Socialist party (PASOK) dominated most of the post-democratic period after 1974. On the right, the conservative (ND) alternated in power. Apart from the two main parties, there were two small left-wing parties, the orthodox Communists (KKE) and the Left coalition (Synaspismos). However, since 2012, PASOK’s vote

Source: Parties and Elections in Europe collapsed and Synaspismos was transformed into a left- wing populist party called Left Coalition (Syriza) under Alexis Tsipras, he became also the prime minister after 2015. Moreover, a neo-fascist party Golden Dawn emerged in the past decade.

All these changes were due to the finance and sovereign debt crisis that hit the country hard in the past decade.