Today’s government that is, during its nearly half-century period post-colonialonly the fifth that exhausts her four-year duration constitutional term of office. For the first time it was the government of N.D. 1977-1981 PASOK was next, first twice with A. Papandreou as Prime Minister (1981-1985 and 1985-1989), and a decade later during the premiership of K. Simitis (2000-2004).

The government was formed in September 2015 headed by Prime Minister Al. Tsipras, with the difference – in relation to the above, that it was a non-one-party scheme of government (it arose as a result of the cooperation of SYRIZA with the party of P. Kammenos). It remained in adventures and reshuffles until July 2019: it was supposed to collapse in January of that year, when, due to the Prespa agreement, Mr. Kammenos announced that his party was refusing to cooperate with the government.

However, ANEL deputies did not agree with their president and supported Mr. Tsipras. The great political pressure created by the results of the European and Home Rule elections, as they showed a trend towards complete electoral collapse of SYRIZA, led to polls in July 2019 that singled out the first and independent N.D. under Mr. Mitsotakis, without the expiration of a four-year term by the Tsipras government.

Throughout this period, there were governments of three and even two years, and electoral contests were also recorded for one year due to the impossibility of forming a government.

Specifically:

After post-colonization, only N.D. in the period 1977-1981. A. Papandreou (1981-1985, 1985-1989) and K. Simitis (2000-2004) exhausted the constitutional framework.

• Elections in the same year, in the midst of a major political crisis, were held in 1989 and again in 2012 and 2015.

• We have had successive three-year and two-year one-party governments with K. Karamanlis as prime minister (2004 and 2007 elections).

• PASOK, under the leadership of G. Papandreou, gained independence in the 2009 elections. The economic crisis sets in, the first memorandum arrives, and the winner of the election steps down as prime minister in November 2011. Then L. Papademos becomes prime minister, and a few months later, in May 2012, polls are scheduled.

• The next three-party (ND – PASOK – DIMAR) government is formed under the leadership of Prime Minister A. Samaras after two elections, and after the departure of DIMAR it becomes a two-party government. Three years later, the country is again led to elections due to the impossibility of electing the president of the republic by the then parliament.

• In the January 2015 elections, SYRIZA (as the first party) and ANEL entered into a cooperation agreement with the government for the first time. After adventurous negotiations with creditors, a referendum, closed banks, the SYRIZA-ANEL government agreed to the third memorandum, the adoption of which was accompanied by the departure of a significant number of SYRIZA deputies. Thus, the country was led to new elections in September 2015, with a well-known continuation until today.