Country: | Greece |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1985 Greek legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1985 |
Next Election: | November 1989 Greek legislative election |
Next Year: | November 1989 |
Seats For Election: | All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament |
Majority Seats: | 151 |
Election Date: | 18 June 1989 |
Image1: | Mitsotakis 1992.jpg |
Leader1: | Konstantinos Mitsotakis |
Party1: | New Democracy (Greece) |
Last Election1: | 40.84%, 126 seats |
Seats1: | 145 |
Seat Change1: | 19 |
Popular Vote1: | 2,887,488 |
Percentage1: | 44.28% |
Swing1: | 3.44pp |
Leader2: | Andreas Papandreou |
Party2: | PASOK |
Seats2: | 125 |
Seat Change2: | 36 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,551,518 |
Percentage2: | 39.13% |
Swing2: | 6.69pp |
Image3: | Charilaos Florakis.JPG |
Leader3: | Charilaos Florakis |
Party3: | Synaspismos |
Last Election3: | – |
Seats3: | 28 |
Seat Change3: | New |
Popular Vote3: | 855,944 |
Percentage3: | 13.13% |
Swing3: | New |
Image4: | Konstantinos Stefanopoulos 2000.jpg |
Leader4: | Konstantinos Stephanopoulos |
Party4: | Democratic Renewal |
Last Election4: | – |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seat Change4: | New |
Popular Vote4: | 65,614 |
Percentage4: | 1.01% |
Swing4: | New |
Leader5: | Sadik Achmet |
Party5: | Trust |
Last Election5: | – |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | New |
Popular Vote5: | 25,099 |
Percentage5: | 0.38% |
Swing5: | New |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Andreas Papandreou |
Before Party: | PASOK |
After Election: | Tzannis Tzannetakis |
After Party: | New Democracy (Greece) |
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.