New Democracy elects eight members to Executive Secretariat, overhauls party rules in Athens meeting
Greece's ruling New Democracy party elected eight new members to its Executive Secretariat and approved sweeping organizational reforms during a Political Committee meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The meeting
The Political Committee of New Democracy convened on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis. During the session, Konstantinos Kyranakis was unanimously elected Secretary of the Political Committee, and the eight elected members of the new Executive Secretariat were chosen. The committee also unanimously approved a series of amendments to the party's nationwide organization regulations.
The new Executive Secretariat
The eight elected members are split evenly between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary representatives. The parliamentary members are Maria-Alexandra Kefala, Athanasios Papathanasis, Stavros Papasotiriou, and Asimina Skondra. The extra-parliamentary members are Panagiotis Palpanas, Christina Patriakou, Giorgos Tsakoumis, and Konstantinos Tsiangliotis.
These eight join the ex officio members: party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis, vice presidents Kostis Hatzidakis and Adonis Georgiadis, Political Committee secretary Konstantinos Kyranakis, parliamentary group general secretary Maximos Charakopoulos, party general director Yiannis Smyrlis, parliamentary spokesperson Dimitris Kairidis, and ONNED president Orfeas Georgiou.
Organizational reforms
The committee unanimously approved amendments to the party's nationwide organization regulations aimed at further modernizing party operations, strengthening coordination among organizations, and broadening participation of cadres in party bodies. Key changes include the establishment of Regional Coordinating Bodies for more effective operation and better coordination of party organizations at the regional level.
Another change is the merger of Municipal Local Organizations (DIM.T.O.) operating in the capitals of Regional Units with the corresponding Electoral District Governing Committees (D.E.E.P.) starting from the next internal party elections. This merger will not apply to the Attica Region and the Regional/Metropolitan Unit of Thessaloniki. Additionally, incompatibilities and eligibility barriers for elected positions in D.E.E.P. and DIM.T.O. are abolished for elected representatives of first- and second-degree local government.
