The Hellenic Republic has an area of 132.000 square kilometers. The sea is very present in Greece and the coasts extend over 15.000 km. Three-quarters of the Greek territory is covered with mountains. The country has two thousand islands of which 154 are inhabited. Many islands are scattered over the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean coast.
Within the political system of GreeceTo be elected President of the Republic, the candidate must obtain at least 180 votes from the 300 deputies of the Greek Parliament. The Parliament Greek It is made up of 300 deputies elected for 4 years by the Greek people by direct universal suffrage. For a party to rule, it must win more than 150 seats in Parliament.
Without any party reaches them, the party who has acquired the highest number of votes has three days to approach another party and reach those 150 seats. If it does not get them in the established time, it is the second party that is chosen if it obtains by agreement the scales necessary.
El primer minister he is elected as head of the political party that will have won the majority of the seats in Parliament.
All the elections they are celebrated every 4 years. To vote, every Greek citizen who is over 18 years old as of January 1 of the current year. For example, if an election takes place on March 7, 2004, people who have reached a majority up to January 1, 2004 can vote. Every citizen with the right to vote has a voter card, voting is mandatory, and a citizen who does not fulfill his task can be subjected to justice.
La journey electoral It lasts from dawn to dusk, and everyone votes in their neighborhood in a defined place, school, City Hall, and so on.
The vote is nominative, but also anonymous. In each political party list all the candidates are cited and the voter can indicate the people he wishes to elect or simply insert the list in the voting envelope.