June 1989 Greek legislative election

June 1989 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Konstantinos Mitsotakis Andreas Papandreou Charilaos Florakis Party ND PASOK Synaspismos Last election 40.84%, 126 seats 45.82%, 161 seats – Seats won 145 125 28 Seat change 19 36 New Popular vote 2,887,488 2,551,518 855,944 Percentage 44.28% 39.13% 13.13% Swing 3.44pp 6.69pp New   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Konstantinos Stephanopoulos Sadik Achmet Party DIANA Trust Last election – – Seats won 1 1 Seat change New New Popular vote 65,614 25,099 Percentage 1.01% 0.38% Swing New New
Prime Minister before election Andreas Papandreou PASOK Prime Minister after election Tzannis Tzannetakis ND

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 18 June 1989.^[1] The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis defeated PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, New Democracy could not form a government, since its 5% lead in the popular vote was not enough to reach a majority because of the proportional representation system voted into electoral law by the previous PASOK government. An agreement between ND and Synaspismos was made to form a short-term government of "katharsis", with a mandate to clean up the various scandals from the outgoing PASOK government. Tzannis Tzannetakis was chosen as a compromise candidate to become Prime Minister, and an agreement was made that the coalition government would resign in October. This was the first, and as of 2024, only time the Communist Party of Greece (as a part of Synaspismos) was part of a governing coalition.