Volt Greece
Volt Greece is a social liberal political party in Greece and the Greek branch of Volt Europa.
History
Volt Greece was founded in 2018. In July 2022, the group elected its first executive secretariat, with Nikolas Fournarakis and Olga Dourou as co-chairs, and Electra Rome Dochtsi as General Secretary. An ethics committee was also established, chaired by Demetrios Velis. The two bodies were tasked with preparing its establishment as a party. On 4 October 2022, the party was officially registered, becoming the 18th registered party of Volt Europa.In December 2022, Volt co-founded the new political alliance Prasino & Mov together with other green parties.
On 11 and 12 March, the party held its first founding congress in Athens and elected Nikolas Fournarakis and Theodora Famprikezi as co-presidents, and Konstantinos Kalafatakis as the General Secretary.
The party planned to contest the national parliamentary elections in May 2023 with the Prasino+Mov alliance but the alliance was disqualified from the election by the Supreme Court for lack of required documents. In the June 2023 parliamentary elections, the Prasino+Mov Alliance was admitted to the ballot and participated with 259 candidates in 59 constituencies, marking Volt's first participation in an election in Greece. The alliance achieved 0.31% of the vote. On July 12, 2023, the party announced its decision to leave the alliance.
In the 2023 regional and local elections, the party officially supported lists in Athens, Pylaia-Chortiatis, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa and Central Macedonia. In total, Volt won 5 seats. The party won one seat on the Athens Municipal Council and two more in the city's seventh district in the Athens Municipal Elections, as well as one seat in Pylaia-Chortiatis and one in Spata-Artemida. In December 2023, Volt local councillor Olga Dourou was elected deputy mayor of Athens, making her the second in Volt Europa after Federica Vinci in Isernia and the first in her party to hold such an office.
The party ran in the European elections 2024 with a joint list with Kosmos.
In November 2024, a General Assembly was conducted, where the vacant positions of the male co-president and General Secretary were filled by Evangelos Liaras and Electra Rome Dochtsi respectively.
During the months of March and April 2025, Volt Greece held its second Congress, in which the statute was reformed, Evangelos Liaras and Electra Rome Dochtsi were elected co-presidents, Florents Bitri was elected Treasurer, and the new bodies were elected.
Policies
As part of the European network, Volt Greece follows a pan-European approach to many policy areas such as climate change, energy crises or the COVID-19 pandemic.European reform
The party aims to create a European federation with geostrategic autonomy.Volt wants to strengthen the European Parliament, a President elected by the European citizens and a unified European government led by a Prime Minister, with joint foreign, finance and economy ministries and a European army.
Social and health policy
Volt wants unemployment benefits to be gradually reduced after someone finds a job. This is to increase the incentive to work and reduce unregistered work. A universal basic income is to be gradually introduced to reduce poverty and a decentralised universal health care system is to be created for all inhabitants of the country.Childcare centres are to be introduced throughout the country. Inequalities based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and origin should be countered.
Economy
The party wants to modernise the Greek economy and aims to create more high value-added jobs. The aim is to increase productivity and reduce the unemployment rate to below 5%. The role of the European Central Bank is to be expanded to include the fight against unemployment.Education
Volt aims to strengthen the autonomy of school institutions administratively, financially, pedagogically and academically.The administrative structure of the Ministry of Education is to be decentralised and its central and regional departments subjected to performance evaluation.
Digitalisation
The party supports the use of open source software as an instrument of a transparent state and wants to digitise the state system and administration.The fundamental right of privacy of correspondence should be strengthened.