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Votes for Women
Women first got the right to vote in Greece in the 1930's but World War II and the Greek civil war effectively blocked their full participation until the early 1950's.

In the 1956 parliamentary elections, two women won seats, Two women were elected: Lina Tsaldari (ERE, right wing) and Vasso Thanasekou (Democratic Union, left wing)

Thanks to the members of the Modern Greek Studies Association mailing list for information on this topic. They are not responsible for any errors.

A source for further information (recommended to me, but I have not read it) is Tasoula Vervenioti, "The Adventure of Women's Suffrage in Greece" in When the War was Over. Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956, edited by Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann, Leicester University Press, 2000.


Posted 1/26/02; © 2002 John P. Nordin