June 1989 Greek parliamentary election

June 1989 Greek parliamentary election
18 June 1989
All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Konstantinos Mitsotakis Andreas Papandreou Charilaos Florakis
Party ND PASOK Synaspismos
Last election 40.84%, 126 seats 45.82%, 161 seats –
Seats won 145 125 28
Seat change 19 36 New
Popular vote 2,887,488 2,551,518 855,944
Percentage 44.28% 39.13% 13.13%
Swing 3.44 pp 6.69 pp New
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Kostis Stephanopoulos Sadik Achmet
Party DIANA Trust
Last election – –
Seats won 1 1
Seat change New New
Popular vote 65,614 25,099
Percentage 1.01% 0.38%
Swing New New
Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

 Prime Minister after election

Tzannis Tzannetakis
ND

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 18 June 1989. The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis defeated PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, New Democracy could not form a government since its 5% lead in the popular vote was not enough to reach a majority, required because of the proportional representation system voted into electoral law by the previous PASOK government. An agreement between New Democracy and Synaspismos was made to form a short-term government of "katharsis," with a mandate to clean up the various scandals from the outgoing PASOK government. Tzannis Tzannetakis was chosen as a compromise candidate to become Prime Minister, and an agreement was made that the coalition government would resign in October after the indictment of Papandreou for the Koskotas scandals. This was the first, and as of 2024, the only time the Communist Party of Greece (as a part of Synaspismos) was part of a governing coalition.

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