Abstract

KARTALIS, Yani. The 2019 European Parliament elections in Greece: returning to a bipolar party system?. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2019, n.64, pp.51-66. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2019.64a04.

The 2019 European Parliament election in Greece took place on 26 May together with municipal and regional elections. It was the first electoral contest since September 2015 and marked the end of a very turbulent era for Greek politics. The radical left governing SYRIZA suffered severe losses and the centre-right conservative party of New Democracy regained its electoral strength and dominated the Greek party system once again since the 2004-2009 period. This article attempts to shed an analytical light on this electoral result through the analysis of the Greek party system and its main actors, the campaign aspects as well as the results that forced the governing party to call for snap elections.

Keywords : Greece; European Parliament elections; parties; electoral campaign.

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