[5][6] The parties and party coalitions participating in the election (in alphabetical order): At the beginning of March 2024, Greeks living abroad received a promotional email from MEP and New Democracy candidate Anna-Michelle Assimakopoulou, which triggered a wave of criticism that the law on the protection of personal data had been violated and that data on postal voters had been illegally passed on by the Ministry of the Interior.

[68] Suffering a nearly 40% decline in its vote share from the 2019 elections, many considered the outcome to be a defeat for Syriza and its new leader, Stefanos Kasselakis.

NIKI entered Greece’s EU delegation with 4.4% of the vote, while far-right Voice of Reason managed to elect its leader (Afroditi Latinopoulou) as an MEP with 3.0%.

Altogether, parties widely considered to be positioned on the far right (including minor contestants, such as Patriots and Creation) took nearly 20% of the vote share.

[74][75] The New Left party's leader, Alexis Haritsis, admitted to their failure to retain either of their two MEPs, unlike Mera25 leader Yannis Varoufakis who said that they may have failed to reach the 3% mark but slightly improved their percentages in contrast to last year; saying on left-wing collectivised newspaper Efsyn that they were the sole carrier of "the subversive, ecological left".