With the electoral process over, the parties count their gains and losses while simultaneously planning their actions for the next day.

On Monday at 12:00, Acting Minister of the Interior Prof. Kalliopi Spanu will send the final election results to the office of Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoula. Then Mr. Tasoulas will go to Herodos Attica, where he will deliver them to the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

According to Article 37 of the Constitution, “The President of the Republic, having established by the final results that the leader of the first party does not have an absolute majority (151) of seats in the new Parliament”, initiates the process of investigative orders.

The President of the Republic will invite the leader of the first party, which has a relative majority in parliamentary power, to determine the possibility of forming a government that enjoys the confidence of parliament. If these efforts fail, Ms. Sakellaropoulou will transfer the mandate for investigation to the leader of the second party in Parliament, and if that fails, the President of the Republic will transfer the mandate for investigation to the leader of the third party in Parliament. power.

Each political leader of the first three parties has the opportunity to maintain an exploratory mandate for up to three days in order to complete the relevant consultations with the remaining parliamentary parties to form a cooperation government.

Exhausting three days is, of course, optional. If one of the three political leaders wishes, he may refuse the possibility of executing an investigative order and deliver it immediately upon its execution by the President of the Republic or at any time within a three-day period.

It should be noted that the constitutional limit for the formation of a government, based on Article 84 of the Constitution, is the possibility of obtaining a vote of confidence from the Greek Parliament, i.e. either 151 votes “for”, or an absolute majority of the deputies present, which cannot be less than 2/5 of the total number of deputies, i.e. 120 votes, if only there were more of those who would vote against.

However, if the advance directives are ineffective and the government cannot be formed, the President of the Republic will summon the leaders of all the parliamentary parties that have come out in the elections to the Presidential Palace for an investigation. the formation of a government that enjoys the confidence of parliament. If these efforts also fail, Ms. Sakellaropoulou will seek the formation of an interim government, widely accepted by all parties in parliament, to hold new elections. The duties of the Prime Minister will be entrusted to the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Ioannis Sharma, who is the oldest of the three Presidents of the country’s three Supreme Courts.

The swearing in of a new parliament

Regardless of the result of the formation of the government (one-party, cooperation, tolerance, or official for holding new elections), the parliament formed by the vote will meet at 11:00 on Thursday, June 1, 2023, to be sworn in: c. The following day, a plenary session of the ITH parliamentary period will be held to elect the President of the Greek Parliament. And the next day, elections will be held for the vice-presidents of the Parliament (proportionately from all parliamentary parties), secretaries and deans of the Hellenic Parliament.

In the event that the preliminary directives and the formation of a government to which the Parliament shall pass a vote of confidence have proved inconclusive and a Provisional Government has been formed to hold new elections, the President of the Republic shall issue a new Presidential Decree to dissolve the ITH Parliamentary period, the announcement of the election, and the day and time of the convergence of K th parliamentary period.

The next national elections will be held under a strong proportional representation electoral system (where the first party receives a “bonus” of 40 seats) and deputies will be determined not by cross-preference from voters, but based on a list of candidates that political parties will make up.

A new pre-election period can range from 22 days to a month. Parties and associations of parties must apply to the Supreme Court for participation in national elections.

Source: RES-IPE