Free Citizens ( Greek : Ελεύθεροι Πολίτες) is a political party that was founded in November 2011 by the independent deputy Vasilis Oikonomou, who had voted "present" in the vote for the memorandum and afterwards was expelled from the parliamentary group of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), and other 250 people who withdrew from the political party Panhellenic Citizen Chariot .
14-461: Apart from parliament deputies and former ministers, personalities of the local self-government as well as representatives of the youth and social movements also take part in the organization. On March 22, 2012, Vasilis Oikonomou joined the Democratic Left (DIMAR) party and is a member of the parliamentary group for Democratic Left party. On October 4, 2012, V. Oikonomou and 100 other members of
28-683: Is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician. Kouvelis was born in Volos . He studied law and political science at the University of Athens . A member of Lambrakis Youth, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior) , serving, from 1975 until the party's demise, on its central committee. He was a founding member of the Greek Left party, in 1987, and was elected its general secretary on 25 June 1989, remaining in this position until 1992. He
42-711: The May 2012 legislative election DIMAR received 386,116 votes (6.1%) and elected 19 MPs in the Greek Parliament, making it the seventh biggest party in the Hellenic Parliament. In the June 2012 legislative election , the DIMAR won 6.3% of the vote and 17 seats, making it the sixth largest party by seat count. It joined the Samaras cabinet with New Democracy (ND) and PASOK. In November 2012,
56-610: The PASOK–DIMAR list received 6.3% of the vote, and returned 17 seats. DIMAR was one of the founding members of the Movement for Change (KINAL) in March 2018. However, DIMAR left KINAL in January 2019. In April 2019, DIMAR affiliated with Syriza, ahead of the 2019 European election . Fotis Kouvelis Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis ( Greek : Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης ; born 3 September 1948)
70-401: The coalition government's seventh austerity package . They announced to form a new party, stating in a letter to party leader Fotis Kouvelis that their former party had "mutated" into a centrist one. On 21 June 2013, DIMAR left the governing coalition with ND and PASOK in protest of the unilateral closure of the state broadcasting corporation, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) which
84-603: The left-wing party Synaspismós , a component of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza)—among them MPs Fotis Kouvelis , Thanasis Leventis , Nikos Tsoukalis , and Grigoris Psarianos —exited Synaspismós at its 6th congress. They were joined by more than 550 individuals. At a subsequent national conference of the Renewal Wing, 170 members were elected to national policy committee of the new party. The first conference of DIMAR
98-521: The party decided to vote abstained/present to the labor market reform and "Midterm fiscal plan 2013-16" as part of the sixth austerity package negotiated with the Troika, while they cast a supportive vote for the "Fiscal budget 2013". As the party did not vote directly against the crucial reforms, it was afterwards possible to continue being a part of the three-party coalition government with New Democracy and PASOK. Following this political line however came at
112-403: The party joined DIMAR as its members. On December 17, 2012, the majority of the party decided to expel V. Oikonomou and 26 more members and then announced the dissolution of its coalition with DIMAR. The Free Citizens (Free Youth) is the party's youth organisation. Democratic Left (Greece) Democratic Left ( Greek : Δημοκρατική Αριστερά (ΔΗΜ.ΑΡ.) , Dimokratiki Aristera , DIMAR )
126-589: The price. Three of its MPs voted against the party line on the reforms, and consequently were asked to leave the party, thus reducing the party's number of MPs from 17 to 14. Democratic Left’s political charter has no paragraphs enabling for the exclusion of MPs from the party, but the three MPs being asked to leave were expected to follow the request, as they fundamentally disagreed with the party's political line. In April 2013, two former Democratic Left MPs, Odysseas Voudouris and Paris Moutsinas , were expelled from DIMAR's parliamentary group after having voted against
140-675: The upcoming election in cooperation with the Greens . In the 25 January 2015 legislative election , the joint electoral list received a mere 0.49% of the vote, thus failing to return any DIMAR MPs to the Hellenic Parliament . On 30 August 2015, ahead of the forthcoming September snap election, PASOK announced an electoral pact with DIMAR, named the Democratic Coalition . In the September 2015 legislative election on 20 September 2015,
154-543: Was Minister for Justice in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis . Kouvelis was long time MP from 1989 until 2019. He was leader of the Democratic Left party from 27 June 2010 until 7 June 2015. From March 2018 he started to support the second Alexis Tsipras government. He became deputy minister of national defence on 28 February 2018 and served as the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy from 29 August 2018 to 9 July 2019. This page incorporates information from
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#1732854759679168-585: Was a social-democratic political party in Greece . Formed as a split from Synaspismós , DIMAR was a minor party supporting the Samaras cabinet from 21 June 2012 to 21 June 2013. After being a member of the Democratic Alignment (DISI) and the Movement for Change (KINAL), it affiliated to Syriza in 2019. The party was dissolved in 2022. DIMAR was founded on 27 June 2010 when the Renewal Wing platform of
182-535: Was held on 31 March – 3 April 2011. It elected Fotis Kouvelis as the party's leader with 97.31% of the vote. On 22 March 2012, six MPs from the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) joined the party, which raised the number of Democratic Left MPs to 10, the party was eligible to form a parliamentary group. The minor party Free Citizens also joined the Democratic Left on 22 March 2012. In
196-512: Was opposed by both DIMAR and PASOK. The withdrawal left Samaras with a tiny majority with 153 New Democracy/PASOK MPs. In the 2014 European elections on 25 May 2014, DIMAR's vote collapsed, with the party receiving less than one fifth of the popular support it had in the national elections two years before (1.20%, down from 6.25%) and failing to win any seats in the European Parliament . On 4 January 2015 DIMAR announced it would contest
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