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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to name his new cabinet on Monday afternoon, a few hours after being sworn in again as prime minister and winning an eight-seat majority in the Greek Parliament for his New Democracy party.
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Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters Kyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected as Prime Minister with a convincing win on Sunday as his party kept up its impressive showing in the May 21 elections by taking an estimated 40.5 pct of the vote and winning a comfortable majority of seven seats in the 300-seat Greek Parliament, according to the first official projections.
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Mitsotakis enters last week of campaign with confidence, high ratings With just a week left until Greeks vote again to elect a government, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is displaying growing confidence that he will win a clear majority on June 25 – a belief that is backed up by one opinion poll after the other.
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Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning Migration has shot to the top of the political agenda in Greece, as all election campaigning has been suspended following a deadly shipwreck which took place off the coast of the Peloponnese on Wednesday.
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ND aims to see off threat from right, with focus on fringe religious party The surprise performance of smaller parties in the May 21 elections has New Democracy worried about the potential for a dilution of the vote in the upcoming re-rerun scheduled in a month’s time.
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Far-right party banned, possibly reducing threshold for election majority The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to ban the far-right Ellines from taking part in the upcoming elections could have a significant impact on the possibility of a majority government being formed, particularly if there is a second vote.
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Parties focus May Day messages on contrasting employment claims Campaign rallies taking place on May Day gave the main contenders in Greece’s upcoming parliamentary elections an opportunity to highlight their employment policies, with each claiming to have done more to advance the interests of working people.
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Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections Buoyed by another opinion poll showing that his party is starting to pick up support ahead of the May 21 elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to set out his policy agenda on Wednesday, informing voters of what they can expect if New Democracy is re-elected.
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PoliticsGreek Politics Top judge's resignation over election law overshadows campaigns The political row prompted by the resignation of the Supreme Court vice president rumbles on, as the opposition has fixed on claims by the former judge that the government attempted to bribe him into disqualifying a far-right party from the upcoming elections.
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA Parliament passed on Tuesday the government’s amendment aimed mainly at giving the Supreme Court the right to bar far-right Ellines (Greeks) from participating in the upcoming elections, although the legislation continued to be a sore point in the relations between New Democracy and its main rival SYRIZA.