what form of government returned to greece in 1974

1974 referendum to establish a Greek commonwealth following the end of armed forces dominion; passed

1974 Greek commonwealth plebiscite

8 December 1974
Location	Greece
Results
Response Votes % Yes 3,245,111 69.eighteen% No 1,445,875 30.82% Valid votes four,690,986 99.39% Invalid or bare votes 28,801 0.61% Full votes four,719,787 100.00% Registered voters/turnout vi,244,539 75.58%
Results by constituency:   >90–100 % Aye   >eighty–90 % Aye   >75–80 % Yes   >seventy–75 % Yes   >65–70 % Yes   >lx–65 % Yes   >55–threescore % Yes   >50–55 % Yes   >45–50 % Yes / >50–55 % No   >40–45 % Yep / >55–lx % No   >35–40 % Aye / >threescore–65 % No

A referendum on retaining the republic was held in Greece on viii December 1974.^{[1] [ii]} Later the collapse of the armed services junta that ruled the country from 1967, the outcome of the grade of authorities remained unsolved. The Junta had already staged a referendum held on 29 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic. However, afterwards the autumn of the war machine regime, the new authorities, nether Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, decided to hold another one, as Junta legal acts were considered void. Constantine II, the sometime Rex, was banned by the new government from returning to Greece to campaign in the referendum, merely the Karamanlis government allowed him to brand a televised address to the nation.^[three] The proposal was approved by 69.2% of voters with a turnout of 75.6%.^[iv]

Entrada [edit]

The referendum campaign included television receiver debates in which Constantine himself took part on the monarchist side, and those debating in favour of the republic included Marios Ploritis, Leonidas Kyrkos, Phaedon Vegleris, George Koumandos, Alexandros Panagoulis and Costas Simitis, who later (from 1996 to 2004) served equally Prime Minister of Greece.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Political parties abstained from taking role in the referendum campaign, with the idiot box debates confined to ordinary citizens representing one side or the other. On 23 November 1974 Prime Minister Karamanlis requested for his parliamentary party group to adopt a neutral stance on the consequence. 2 televised speeches a week were given to each side, with an boosted 2 messages broadcast by the former king; a radio broadcast on 26 November and a boob tube speech communication on 6 December.^{[ citation needed ]}

Results [edit]

The electorate voted categorically in favour of republic. Crete gave more than 90% of its vote for the republic, but in around thirty constituencies, the result for republic was around 60–70%. The largest wins for the monarchy were in the Peloponnese and Thrace, at around 45%. The constituencies with the highest votes for the monarchy were Laconia at 59.52%, Rhodope at 50.54%, Messenia with 49.24%, Elis at 46.88% and Argos at 46.67%.^{[ citation needed ]}

Option	Votes	%
For	iii,245,111	69.ii
Confronting	1,445,875	30.viii
Invalid/bare votes	28,801	–
Total	four,719,787	100
Registered voters/turnout	vi,244,539	75.6
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Past region [edit]

Region	FOR (%)	Confronting(%)
Athens A	75.lx	24.40
Athens B	79.59	20.41
Aetolia-Acarnania	65.63	34.67
Argolis	53.33	46.67
Arkadia	56.99	43.01
Arta	56.21	43.79
Achaea	68.54	31.46
Kavala	73.64	26.36
Boeotia	65.46	35.24
Corfu	63.47	36.53
Drama	67.41	32.59
Dodecanese	63.78	36.22
Evros	threescore.27	39.73
Evrytania	threescore.69	39.31
Euboea	65.38	34.62
Grevena	61.20	38.80
Heraklion	89.43	10.57
Ilia	53.12	46.88
Ioannina	68.70	31.30
Imathia	71.77	28.23
Thessaloniki A	79.99	20.01
Thessaloniki B	68.12	31.88
Thesprotia	64.21	35.79
Zante	62.63	37.37
Karditsa	68.79	31.21
Kastoria	55.74	44.26
Cephalonia	66.17	33.83
Kilkis	59.71	40.29
Kozani	66.11	33.89
Corinthia	62.36	37.64
Cyclades	61.72	38.28
Larissa	67.82	32.18
Laconia	40.48	59.52
Lasithi	88.42	eleven.58
Lesvos	77.74	22.26
Lefkada	71.22	28.78
Magnesia	71.25	28.75
Messenia	50.76	49.24
Xanthi	53.75	46.25
Piraeus A	71.95	28.05
Piraeus B	81.seventy	18.30
Pella	65.09	34.91
Pieria	65.54	34.46
Preveza	62.01	37.99
Rethymno	94.x	5.90
Rhodope	49.46	50.54
Samos	64.38	35.62
Serres	64.82	35.xviii
Trikala	67.xl	32.60
Attica	65.07	34.93
Fthiotida	63.58	36.42
Florina	60.36	39.64
Fokida	62.44	37.56
Chalcidice	58.17	41.83
Chania	92.seventy	7.30
Chios	72.95	27.05

Aftermath [edit]

With the announcement of the results, Karamanlis said: "A cancer has been removed from the body of the nation today."^{[v] [ citation needed ]} On 15 Dec 1974, the incumbent President Phaedon Gizikis submitted his resignation, and Karamanlis thanked him with a personal visit and past writing for his services to the country. On 18 Dec 1974, Michail Stasinopoulos, a state list MP for New Republic, was elected and sworn in as President of Greece.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In Feb 1988, Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis stated in an interview given in London that although he was a republican, the manner in which the referendum was carried out had been "unfair".^{[ citation needed ]} The statement attracted wide criticism in Greece and was debated in the media.^{[ citation needed ]} For the remainder of his life, under the pretense of invoking the narrative style reserved for historical reminiscence, Mitsotakis continued to refer to the deposed monarch deferentially past referring to him as the "King" in multiple interviews.

In Apr 2007, the newspaper To Vima carried out a survey in which but eleven.6% of those polled wished for Greece to get a monarchy once again.^{[ citation needed ]}

References [edit]

1. ^ Steven Five. Roberts (9 December 1974). "Greeks Decline Monarchy By Wide Margin of Votes". The New York Times . Retrieved ten August 2020.
2. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
3. ^ Hope, Kevin. Referendum plan faces hurdles. Financial Times one November 2011.
4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p838
5. ^ Kollias, Konstantinos (1984). Βασιλεύς και Επανάστασις 1967. Athens: Αθήναι. p. 115.

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