2019 in Greece

Events in the year 2019 in Greece.

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See also:	Other events of 2019 List of years in Greece

Incumbents

Photo	Post	Name
	President of the Hellenic Republic	Prokopis Pavlopoulos[1]
	Prime Minister of Greece	Alexis Tsipras (until 8 July 2019)[2]
	Prime Minister of Greece	Kyriakos Mitsotakis (starting 8 July 2019)[3]
	Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament	Nikos Voutsis (until 18 July 2019)[4]
	Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament	Konstantinos Tasoulas (starting July 18, 2019)[5]
	Adjutant to the President of the Hellenic Republic	Navy Commander Nikolaos Patsakis

Events

• 13 January - Greece Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party quit Greece's ruling coalition on Sunday, over a deal struck on the Macedonia naming dispute. Potentially leaving the governing coalition without a workable majority in parliament.^[6]
• 25 January - Greek Parliament ratifies the Prespa Agreement, officially naming FYROM as “North Macedonia” by a narrow vote of 153 in the 300-seat House, despite strong public opposition.^[7]
• 26–27 May - European Parliament elections are held in Greece alongside the first round of local and regional elections; New Democracy win with 33.12% of the vote, defeating the ruling Syriza party.
• 19 July - A magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes near Athens at 2:13 p.m., causing power outages, injuries, and communication problems.^[8]
• 11 December - Greek Parliament passes a constitutional amendment granting Greeks living abroad the right to vote in national elections, with 288 MPs in favor.^[7]

Births

Main article: births in 2019

Further information: Category:2019 births

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2019

• Thanos Mikroutsikos, composer and former Minister of Culture of Greece (b. 1947)^[7]

Further information: Category:2019 deaths

See also

• 2019 European Parliament election