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 Poland Germany Belgium Ukraine Czech Republic Luxembourg Slovak Republic Moldova France Austria Switzerland Hungary : Alexis Tsipras (Syriza) Romania Prime Minister Slovenia Liechtenstein Croatia Bosnia Serbia Italy and Portugal Herzegovina Bulgaria Spain Macedonia Montenegro Turkey Greece 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 New Democracy (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. .