Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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.

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%.

There is a waning interest in the voting process for the head of the main opposition New Democracy party set to take place on November 22.

885 voting centers have been set up in Greece and abroad with 1,284 polling booths in Greece and 44 abroad, however it is expected that few people will show up to vote for a party leader from the four candidates:

Current President of New Democracy  and candidate for the party’s leadership Evangelos Meimarakis met with the three other candidates, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Adonis Georgiadis in an effort to calm down the explosive atmosphere created especially following yesterday’s angry intervention of Evangelos Meimerakis.

Conservative New Democracy interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis stormed into the party’s 1st floor headquarters at Syngrou Avenue during the party’s central election committee (KEFE) meeting. He sought out his representative, Theodore Abatzoglou, and said, “Let’s go Theodore! We aren’t going to participate in a procedure that humiliates the party.”

Greece’s main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is set to elect its new leader on November 22, the party’s central election committee announced on Thursday.

If a second round of vote is needed, it will be held the following Sunday, on November 29.

The election committee of New Democracy will reconvene at 09.30 on Saturday to decide on whether to accept the rejected fourth candidacy of New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis, after disapproving comments from all three candidates and the former ND leader Antonis Samaras.

Conservative ND MP Adonis Georgiadis gathered the 50 signatures he needed in order to officially submit his candidacy for the leadership of the main opposition New Democracy party. He announced his intent to join in the running on Twitter with the message, “I found them, I’m off”.

The main opposition New Democracy party’s interim president Vangelis Meimarakis on Thursday officially announced his bid for the party’s leadership in the upcoming internal elections.