Greece Background Informaiton based on Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, August 2004 (Greece/Greek/Crete/Creta/Kriti):

Background Note: Greece
 

PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME:
Hellenic Republic

Government
Type: Parliamentary republic.
Independence: 1830.
Constitution: June 11, 1975, amended March 1986, April 2001.
Branches: Executive--president (head of state), prime minister (head of government). Legislative--300-seat unicameral Vouli (parliament). Judicial--Supreme Court. Council of State.
Political parties: New Democracy (ND), Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Coalition of the Left (SYNASPISMOS), Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI), Political Spring, and Movement of Free Citizens (KEP).
Suffrage: Universal at 18.
Administrative subdivisions: 13 peripheries (regional districts), 51 nomi (prefectures).

Greece is a parliamentary republic whose constitution was last amended in April 2001. There are three branches of government. The executive includes the president, who is head of state, and the prime minister, who is head of government. There is a 300-seat unicameral Vouli (legislature). The judicial branch includes a Supreme Court. Administrative subdivisions include 13 peripheries (regional districts) and 51 nomi (prefectures). Suffrage is universal at 18.

Principal Government Officials
President--Constandinos Stephanopoulos
Prime Minister--Konstandinos Karamanlis
Foreign Minister--Petros Molyviatis
Ambassador to the United States--Georgios Savvaidis
Ambassador to the United Nations--Adamantios Vassilakis

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