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2015–16 New Democracy leadership election

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On 21 November, when testing the electronic voting system, the Central Electoral Committee found a number of issues, which meant that the election could not start at the scheduled time of 07:00 on 22 November. Furthermore, another issue arose on the evening of the 22 that caused the Central Electoral
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Mitsotakis issued a statement saying: "We owe a big apology to all the New Democracy supporters, and also to all Greek citizens. Unfortunately the election process can no longer take place today. This is no time to be seeking who is responsible. The time for that will come later." Meimarakis
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threatened to withdraw his candidacy if the election was not postponed, and Georgiadis called the failure a "fiasco" and asked for the resignation of all the members of the Central Electoral Committee.
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Both Mitsotakis and Tzitzikostas called for Meimarakis to step down as interim leader and appoint a new interim leader. On 24 November, Meimarakis appointed
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to stay on until spring 2016, postponing the leadership election. However, following ND's election loss in the early
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Whilst the election had originally been expected to be held on 30 August 2015, 57 MPs called for interim leader
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on 5 July 2015. The first round was held on 20 December 2015 and the second round was held on 10 January 2016.
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Committee to replace 50 electoral delegates. They then took a unanimous decision to postpone the election.
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The central electoral committee of the party met on 24 September at the request of interim leader
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The results of the election. In the first round only the valid votes were announced.
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refers to the two-round election to determine the next president of
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Vangelis Meimarakis
ND
ND


Apostolos Tzitzikostas
Adonis Georgiadis
ND
ND
Ioannis Plakiotakis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Kyriakos Mitsotakis
New Democracy
Leader of the Opposition
Prime Minister of Greece
2015–16 New Democracy leadership election
Shadow Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Prespa Agreement
First Cabinet
EastMed pipeline
2020 presidential election
COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
Egypt-Greece maritime deal
Operation Freedom
2021 Greek protests

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