The first post-revolutionary elections, announced by Konstantinos Karamanlis on the symbolic date of November 17, 1974, resulted in a big victory for the New Democracy. The 220 seats that he managed to collect led to the formation of his first government under the leadership of K. Karamanlis.

On his November 19 front page, Cathimerini described the government as a renewing government of young people, and Cohn. Karamanlis stated that its formation would last three to four days. “The delay in the formation of a new government is due to the desire of Mr. Karamanlis to thoroughly study the list of his deputies in order to select the best in sectors in order to form the most effective government. And this is because the problems that this government will have to solve are huge.”

One of the main issues that the new government of Karamanlis had to solve was the question of state. “In the state elections, which will be decided by a referendum on December 8, Mr. Karamanlis will remain neutral until the end. It is no coincidence that during yesterday’s meeting with journalists, he answered a related question: “I have already stated that the Greek people will not make decisions. This is the most honest and democratic decision.” Indeed, in a December referendum, the Greek people would have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the abolition of democratic rule, which would also have been enshrined in the 1975 Constitution.

At the same time, the Daily Mail wrote about the elections in Greece: “Democracy is the same for everyone. The irony is that many who occupied ministries during the junta now lined up at the polls like the rest of the world. Some of them were mocked, but otherwise the voting was organized throughout the country. But the triumph of democracy did not reach those who overthrew the parliamentary regime in April 1967. Deposed dictator George Papadopoulos and four of his supporters, exiled to an Aegean island awaiting trial for treason and murder, were banned from voting.”