Greece - Government

Monarchy was rejected by referendum on December 8, 1974, establishing a parliamentary democracy under the control of a president who is elected by the members of the Parliament. The vouli, or room of the Parliament, controls the legislation, while the executive power is the field of the government and the president. There is also a Prime Minister as well as an independent judicial power; this last being divided into three courses different: civil, criminal and administrative. The constitution allots the human civil laws, policies and. Although the elections are held every four years, the president remains at his station during five years. He can exert this function only during two mandates.

The country is divided into thirteen administrative units, called diamerismata, which in their turn are divided into fifty-two departments, or nomists, each one being controlled by nomarque. List diamerismata: Egée of North, Egée of the South, Attic, Crete, Epire, central Greece, Western Greece, Ionian islands, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, central Macedonia, Western Macedonia, Peloponnese and Thessalie. The Athos Mount is regarded as an autonomous district by the constitution.

Greece is worried by political problems: in February 1996, Greece and Turkey entered in diplomatic conflict in connection with the occupation by the strategic Turks of two points of the Peninsula of Bodrum. There are other latent problems in Greece: the continual quarrel in connection with Cyprus, the recalcitrant classification of the old Republic of Yugoslav Macedonia, which gallop inflation and the national debt highest of the European Union.