The ruling faction of President Bill Papastergiadis (foto), Community Renewal, swept to victory at the elections for a new Board in the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne Victoria (GOCMV) 5on Sunday. Mr Papastergiadis’ team managed to have all of its 19 candidates elected as new GOCMV Board members.
The Opposition faction, Community Transparency, led by Treasurer Con Dikeos, did not secure any positions in the newly elected Board. Long serving board members such as George Fountas, Jenny Krasopoulaki and Eugenia Grammatikakis also failed to get elected.
The results were officially announced today by the Electoral Commission which was responsible for the conduct of the elections.
In total 2,209 GOCMV members cast a vote on Sunday. Of this total number, only 88 votes were deemed informal.There were 43 candidates of which 38 were nominated as part of formal tickets and five who stood as independents.
After the announcement of the result the President of the GOCMV said to Neos Kosmos: “The result is one for the Greek Community and for the paroikia in general; it’s not a personal result. Despite being a vote of confidence it also bestows upon us responsibilities.
The new Board will attempt to meet its responsibilities to the best of their abilities.”
Mr Papastergiadis went on to emphasise his commitment to unity and inclusiveness; “Community will be open for all, irrespective of where they stood before the election the main focus will be on on the current projects moving forward.”
The team of Community Renewal managed to secure 53.68 percent of the vote as opposed to 44.08 percent for the Community Transparency and 2.24 percent for the independent candidates.
The list of candidates in descending order is as follows:
Bill Papastergiadis 1203, Leonidas Vlahakis 1198, Theo Andrianakos 1187, Tammy Iliou 1186, Nick Koukouvitakis 1177, Theo Markos 1166, Costas Markos 1162, Jorge Menidis 1139, Vassilios Anevlavis 1138, Vasso Zangalis 1137, George Kallianis 1126, Nicole Iliopoulos 1124, Jim Bossinakis 1124, Dimitris Iakovakis 1112, Kostas Tsoubakos 1105, George Koletsis 1094, Paul Kounnas 1094, Nick Parthimos 1092, John Mitsakos 1067, Eugenia Grammatikakis 1037, Con Dikeos 994, Jenny Krasopoulaki 989, George Fountas 955, Savvas Grigoropoulos 951, Apostolos Kounelis 950, John Kotsifas 938, John Lioupas 937, Zisis Pouros 931, Eleni Kavnoudias 929, Helen Panagiotopoulos 929, Kathy Karasavidis 927, Polyhronis Papadopoulos 926, Aggelos Haritou 917, Tom Karatzas 909, Dimitri Stamatopoulos 907, Aggelos Koukoulas 898, Emmanuel Starakis 867, Bill Korras 874, Christos Fifis 206, Paul Mavroudis 144, George Dikeakos 136, Kyriakos Papadimitropoulos 134, John Haitidis 83.
(source: neos kosmos)
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