Adonis Georgiadis

New Democracy (ND) interim leader Yiannis Plakiotakis said that elections for the new party leader on Sunday, December 20, would roll smoothly. He urged members and friends of the party to vote.

The conservative main opposition New Democracy (ND) is on the road to electing a new leader on December 20 amid controversy, a failed election round and speculation concerning candidates mulling the prospect of dropping out. New strife was caused after former interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis said he had the silent support of former ND prime minister Kostas Karamanlis.

The resignation of the main opposition New Democracy (ND) interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis and that of Andreas Papamimikos as secretary of the central electoral committee (KEFE) served to defuse tensions within the conservative party. A temporary truce appears to have settled after 48 hours of fear that internal strife would threaten the party’s stability.

Main opposition interim New Democracy (ND) party leader Evangelos Meimarakis is to remain as party leader following crisis talks that took place within the conservative party until late on Monday night.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy Party leader Evangelos Meimarakis said the problems that arose during the voting of the New Democracy party’s elections was purely “technical and should not have been politicized.” Making statements outside the conservative party headquarters at Syngrou Street on Monday morning, he said: “I entered this process showing respect to my fellow candidates a

The main opposition conservative New Democracy party decided to call off its leadership election that was due to take place on Sunday, November 22, due to technical problems that prevented voters from casting their ballots. The party’s electoral committee decided to postpone the voting procedure after the fiasco was noted.

The elections for the new leader of New Democracy party were postponed due to major technical problems in the online registration system of voters which could not be fixed.

The election process for the new leader of New Democracy party should have been started since 7 am on Sunday in 833 polling stations, but polls are not opened yet due to technical problems.

According to information, there are problems with the online system and voters who wanted to vote early in the morning left the polling stations irritated.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy members will head to the polling booths on Sunday, November 22, to elect their party leader. 781,136 liberal supporters (around a third of the party’s voters) had shown up to vote in the first internal elections held by liberals in November 2009 in relation to the October elections held in that same year.

A new poll conducted by e-voice company for “Eleftheros Typos news agency shows Vagelis Meimarakis and Apostolos Tzitzikostas will give a fight over the leadership of New Democracy on Sunday.

According to the poll, Vangelis Meimarakis slight leads with 33.54% followed by Apostolos Tzitzikostas with 30.2%, Kyriakos Mitsotakis 19.7% and Adonis Georgiadis 10.54%.