What is Constitution?

Constitution has to dowith

established rulesaccording to which

the state isorganized

National Constitutionof Greece

The Greek Government

• The form of the Greek government is that of a parliamentary republic.

• All powers come from the People and exist for the People and the Nation; they shall be exercised as stated by the Constitution.

The three Functions of the State

• The legislative powers shall be exercised by the Parliament and the Presidents of the Republic.

• The executive powers shall be exercised by the President of the Republic and the Government.

• 3. The judicial powers shall be exercised by courts of law, the decisions of which shall be executed in the name of the Greek People.

Constitutional History

• In July 1974 Greece came out of the seven years long dictatorship which had halted its overall development in all aspects.

• Once democracy was reinstated in Greece in July 1974, the National Unity government of C. Karamanlis, set forth to strengthen the rule of democracy and erase the traumatic experiences of the civil war and the dictatorship.

Constantinos Karamanlis signs the 1975 Constitution of Greece

The Constitution of 1975was created by the principles of

• the law and the welfare state.• the respect to the value of man as the primary

obligation of the state.• the arrangement of a normal political life

based on the values of parliamentary republic.

Context of the constitution

The Constitution consists of 120 articles and it is set out in 4 parts:

•The first part (articles 1-3), establishes the form of the Greek government.

•The second part (articles 4-25) concerns individual and social rights.

• The third part (articles 26-105) describes the organization and function of the State.

• The fourth part (articles 106-120) covers special, final and temporary necessities.

The Greek Parliament

The members of the Parliament

The Parliament is the supreme democratic institution that represents the citizens through an elected body of Members of Parliament.

In the current composition the Parliament consists of 300 elected members.

Inside the Parliament

If we want to protect our human rights…

We must have

Constitution!