Editing Greece (section)

=== Political parties ===
{{Main|List of political parties in Greece}}
After the [[Metapolitefsi|restoration of democracy]] in 1974–1975, the Greek party system was dominated by the liberal-conservative [[New Democracy (Greece)|New Democracy]] (ND) and the social-democratic [[PASOK|Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] (PASOK).{{Refn | group = lower-alpha | For a diachronic analysis of the Greek party system, see {{Harvnb|Pappas|2003}}, who distinguishes three distinct types of party system which developed in consecutive order, namely, a predominant-party system (from 1952 to 1963), a system of polarised pluralism (between 1963 and 1981), and a two-party system (since 1981).}} PASOK and New Democracy largely alternated in power until the outbreak of the [[Greek government-debt crisis|government-debt crisis]] in 2009, whenceforth they experienced a sharp decline in popularity,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.vprc.gr/uplds/File/teleytaia%20nea/Epikaira/Political%20Climate%20and%20Governance_December2011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425150133/http://www.vprc.gr/uplds/File/teleytaia%20nea/Epikaira/Political%20Climate%20and%20Governance_December2011.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2012 |place=GR |title=Πολιτική Συγκυρία & Διακυβέρνηση |trans-title=Political climate & governance |date=22 December 2011 |publisher=VPRC |access-date=22 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/Political_Conjuncture_and_Governance_Jan2012.pdf |title=Πολιτική Συγκυρία & Διακυβέρνηση |trans-title=Political conjuncture & governance |place=GR |date=26 January 2012 |work=VPRC |access-date=26 January 2012 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235341/http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/Political_Conjuncture_and_Governance_Jan2012.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/ToThePoint-Ert3_30-1-12.pdf |title=Πανελλαδικη Ερευνα για την ET3 |date=29 January 2012 |work=To The Point |access-date=29 January 2012 |place=GR |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010522/http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/ToThePoint-Ert3_30-1-12.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |via=Ek logika |place=GR |url=http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/PulseRC-ToPontiki_2-2-2012.pdf |title=Ερευνα της Pulse RC για το Ποντικι |date=2 February 2012 |publisher=Pulse RC |access-date=2 February 2012 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235437/http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/PulseRC-ToPontiki_2-2-2012.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/varometro_2_12.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226224630/http://www.eklogika.gr/uploads/files/Dimoskopiseis/varometro_2_12.pdf |archive-date=26 February 2012 |url-status=live |title=Πολιτικό Βαρόμετρο 99 |trans-title=Political barometer |date=7 February 2012 |work=Public Issue |publisher=Ek logika |access-date=7 February 2011}}</ref> manifested in the [[Greek legislative election, May 2012|parliamentary elections of May 2012]], when the left-wing [[SYRIZA]] became the second major party,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/egk42_19062012.pdf |title=June 2012 Greek legislative election |access-date=19 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628235938/http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/egk42_19062012.pdf |archive-date=28 June 2015 }}</ref> overtaking PASOK as the main party of the centre-left.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYQgDQAAQBAJ&q=syriza%2520pasok%2520centre-left&pg=PA94 |title=Radical Left Parties in Government: The Cases of SYRIZA and AKEL |last=Katsourides |first=Yiannos |date=22 September 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781137588418 |page=94 |language=en |access-date=11 November 2020 |archive-date=10 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610022247/https://books.google.com/books?id=EYQgDQAAQBAJ&q=syriza%2520pasok%2520centre-left&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q=syriza%2520pasok%2520centre-left&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> After a [[June 2023 Greek legislative election|repeat election in June 2023]], New Democracy gained almost 41% of the popular vote and a parliamentary majority of 158 and its leader, [[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], who [[First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis|had been Prime Minister]] from [[2019 Greek legislative election|2019]] until the [[May 2023 Greek legislative election|inconclusive election of May 2023]], was sworn in for a [[Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis|second four-year term]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mitsotakis sworn in as Greek PM, promises more jobs and 'big changes' |publisher=Reuters |date=2023-06-26 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mitsotakis-be-sworn-greek-pm-after-landslide-victory-2023-06-26/ |accessdate=2024-05-19 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702205724/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mitsotakis-be-sworn-greek-pm-after-landslide-victory-2023-06-26/}}</ref> Other parties represented in the [[Hellenic Parliament]] are the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE), [[Greek Solution]], [[New Left (Greece)|New Left]], [[Spartans (Greek political party)|Spartans]], [[Victory (Greek political party)|Victory]] and [[Course of Freedom]].