there are many political parties in greece, but only seven are in the greek parliament. until 2015, only two political parties formed governments, the pasok party (which is social democratic) and new democracy (nd, which is conservative). the government ousted in the 2015 election was led by pasok, dimar, and nd. other parties include the communist party, the left-wing syriza party, the nationalist party and others. syriza, led by alexis tsipras, won the 2015 parliamentary election held on january 25 of that year, and entered into a coalition government with the small right-wing party "greek independents".