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Good practice Imported

Decision 65/2019 on gender quota for the candidates at all electoral procedures

Greece · unspecified · National · See the Greece profile

The Decision 65/2019 by the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece establishes 40% gender quota for the candidates at all electoral procedures (national, regional, municipal and European elections). This, modifies the previous article 34 of Presidential Decree 26/2012 which s

40 %
Gender quota for candidates in all electoral procedures (2019 decision) (since 2019)
one-third (~33) %
Prior gender quota for candidate lists (2012 decree) (2012–2019)

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Gender Training, Self-regulation
Keywords
electoral procedures, elections, gender quotas, political decision-making, political parties

Context

Greek electoral law previously required, under Presidential Decree 26/2012 (Article 34), that at least one-third of each political party's candidate lists — national and constituency — be filled by candidates of each sex; the same higher quota already applied to regional and municipal elections.

Objectives

Decision 65/2019 of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece raises this to a 40% gender quota for candidates in all electoral procedures — national, regional, municipal and European.

Activities

The measure amends Article 34 and extends the binding quota across all electoral levels; separately, the absence of a quota in the composition of Public Administration Councils is flagged as triggering legal penalties.

Results

The practice's own description asserts that the measure has ‘significantly increased women's representation in politics’ and helped address historical under-representation, but cites no independent data or study to substantiate the size of this effect.

Conclusions

As a binding legal instrument in force since 2019 (building on a 2012 predecessor), the quota is durable and enforceable, but no published outcome evaluation was identified to confirm the claimed impact on women's representation.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Legal/regulatory reform with no implementation budget described; classified low.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — In force since 2019, building on a 2012 predecessor; classified long given its embedding in permanent electoral law.
Staffing & skills
Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (issuing authority)

Conditions for success

  • Binding, enforceable legal quota rather than a voluntary target
  • Consistency with an already-higher quota in regional/municipal elections
  • Legal penalties attached to quota gaps in Public Administration Councils

Common failure modes

  • Public Administration Councils are noted as lacking an equivalent quota system, an enforcement gap flagged in the source text

Where it fits

Governance type
national electoral law
Scale
national (all electoral procedures)

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