2024 European Parliament election in Greece

The 2024 European Parliament election in Greece was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the first to take place after Brexit.

Background
Greece will elect 21 Members of the European Parliament.

The Spartans party was barred from participating in the 2024 european parliament elections an action that was endorsed by New Democracy, PASOK, New left and Syriza while it was rejected by Afroditi Latinopoulou and her Voice of Reason party.

Parties participating
The parties and party coalitions participating in the election (in alphabetical order):


 * 1) Antarsya
 * 2) Assembly of Greeks
 * 3) Communist Party of Greece
 * 4) Conservatives
 * 5) Course of Freedom
 * 6) Democrats
 * 7) Diaspora Network of Greeks in Europe
 * 8) Greek Solution
 * 9) Green Movement
 * 10) I PARTICIPATE for National Sovereignty and for Cyprus
 * 11) Kosmos
 * 12) Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece
 * 13) MeRA25
 * 14) Movement 21
 * 15) National Front
 * 16) National Independence Movement
 * 17) New Democracy
 * 18) New Left
 * 19) NIKI
 * 20) OAKKE
 * 21) OKDE
 * 22) Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace
 * 23) Party of Greek Hunters - AKKEL - TOGETHER for a Free Greece
 * 24) Popular Orthodox Rally
 * 25) PASOK – Movement for Change
 * 26) Patriots
 * 27) Recreation
 * 28) Syriza
 * 29) Union of Centrists
 * 30) United Popular Front
 * 31) Voice of Reason

Controversies
At the beginning of March 2024, Greeks living abroad received a promotional email from MEP and New Democracy candidate Anna-Michelle Assimakopoulou, which triggered a wave of criticism that the law on the protection of personal data had been violated and that data on postal voters had been illegally passed on by the Ministry of the Interior.

New Democracy
• Aftias Georgios (310,876 votes)

• Meimarakis Evangelos-Vasileios (261,123)

• Vozempergk-Vryonidi Elissavet (247,452)

• Beleris Dionysios-Frentis (238,801)

• Meleti Eleonora (173,815)

• Tsiodras Dimitrios (157,731)

Syriza
• Arvanitis Konstantinos (154,800 votes)

• Farantouris Nikolas (136,973)

• Pappas Nikolaos (128,078)

• Kountoura Elena (114,963)

PASOK – Movement for Change
• Papandreou Nikolaos (123,294 votes)

• Maniatis Ioannis (108,231)

• Arnaoutoglou Athanasios (92,087)

Greek Solution
• Fragkos Emmanouil (110,699 votes)

• Alexandraki Galato (51,465)

KKE
• Papadakis Konstantinos (106,668 votes)

• Nikolaou-Alavanos Lefteris (108,604)

NIKI
• Anadiotis Nikolaos (42,066 votes)

Course of Freedom
• Zacharia Maria (23,199 votes)

Voice of Reason
• Latinopoulou Afroditi (58,981 votes)

New Democracy
Falling well short of its showing in the final polls (which projected New Democracy to win a third of the vote), just as it has in the 2019 European parliament election, Kyriakos Mitsotakis acknowledged the "message understood,” and pledged to move Greece closer to the EU.

SYRIZA
Suffering a nearly 40% decline in its vote share from the 2019 elections, many considered the outcome to be a defeat for Syriza and its new leader, Stefanos Kasselakis. The party failed to win in any region of the country, including Chania, home to Kasselakis.

PASOK-KINAL
The alliance improved from its showing in the 2019 EU election, but remained stagnant from legislative elections and failed to fulfill its goal of reasserting itself as the official opposition. This triggered a crisis within the party, with the credibility of Nikos Androulakis’ leadership being called into question. Some in the party also floated the possibility of an alliance with Syriza in advance of the 2027 legislative elections, including Syriza MP Nikos Pappas and Athens’ PASOK mayor Haris Doukas.

Far-right parties
Greece, unlike Northern Europe, was not an exception to the far-right surge. Most significantly, Greek Solution’s support almsot than doubled to 9.3%. NIKI entered Greece’s EU delegation with 4.4% of the vote, while far-right Voice of Reason managed to elect its leader (Afroditi Latinopoulou) as an MEP with 3.0%. Altogether, parties widely considered to be positioned on the far right (including minor contestants, such as Patriots and Creation) took nearly 20% of the vote share.

KKE
Despite slipping to fifth place, being surpassed by Greek Solution, KKE managed to nearly double its vote share, from 5.3% in the 2019 election to 9.2%. The party retained its third position in the region of Attica.

Other parties
The New Left party's leader (Alexis Haritsis) admitted to their failure to retain either of their two MEPs, unlike Mera25 leader Yannis Varoufakis who says that they may have failed to reach the 3% mark but slightly improved their percentages in contrast to last year; saying on a left-wing newspaper that they were the sole carrier of "the subversive, ecological left".