This time, we talked about the background, the circumstances, and the outcome of the 21 May and the subsequent 25 June legislative elections that took place in Greece. Our guest expert, Dr. Anastasia Kafe from the Panteion University helped us understand the different interesting aspects of the election and campaign process. The political scientist explained the impact of the recent amendments to the electoral law on the 2023 parliamentary ballot, and gave us an insight to the key to success of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy party, which managed to gain considerable support with almost 41% of the vote. Dr. Kafe pointed at the possible reasons for the huge defeat of former leftist premier Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza party and for the rise of smaller radical and extremist political formations on both edges of the political spectrum. Listen to our latest episode if you are interested about the main messages of the parties, the major social debates, and the most commonly used campaigning methods in the recent legislative election process in Greece.
With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.
