Democrats (Greece, 2024)
The Democrats (Greek: Δημοκράτες, romanized: Dimokrátes) is a Greek political party founded in 2024 by former PASOK–KINAL politician Andreas Loverdos. It describes itself as a "patriotic, popular, politically liberal, modernizing, reformist, digital and pluralist" party.[2] HistoryOn 7 February 2024, Andreas Loverdos filed the necessary documents and supporting documents for the establishment of the party, at the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court.[3] On 4 March 2024, the new party was presented through a Loverdos' video message from Evros.[4] On 20 March 2024, in Brussels, it was announced that the party had joined the European parliamentary group Renew Europe, after a meeting of party officials with the RE leader Valérie Hayer.[5] On 21 March 2024, Panagiotis Konsoulas was elected by the temporary Political Committee of the party as the first Secretary of the party.[6] On 26 March, it was announced that the criminologist Tatiana Douvara took over as Press Spokesperson,[7] while a day later it was announced that the president of the Athens Central Fish Market, Vassilis Simos, took over as Political Spokesperson.[8] On 28 March 2024, the former Hellenic Parliament member of the Democratic Alignment and PASOK–KINAL, Theodoros Papatheodorou, took over as vice president of the party.[9] On 9 June 2024, in the 2024 European Parliament election, the party failed to elect an MEP, underperforming compared to opinion polls and taking 1.45% of the vote.[10] Election resultsEuropean Parliament election
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