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Cost-of-living, surveillance developments encourage ND to target majority in 2023
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing his numerous appearances in New York and the latest opinion polls showing that New Democracy has so far suffered minimal damage from the surveillance scandal, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is looking ahead to the upcoming election campaign with greater optimism and a growing sense that his party may be able to secure a parliamentary majority.
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Opposition anger at constrained surveillance inquiry not yet reflected in public mood
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe opposition parties are growing increasingly frustrated with what they see as the government’s attempts to obstruct any meaningful investigation into the surveillance scandal, which for the time being seems to be low down on the list of Greek voters’ priorities.
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Athens responds to Erdogan's accusations as Mitsotakis readies UN address
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece and Turkey are using the platform available to them at the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York to put under the spotlight their outstanding differences on several issues and to exchange longstanding accusations at the highest international level.
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Tsipras hits back with own economic pledges, choice for voters to ponder
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras responded to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) speech a week earlier by making his own policy pledges and presenting voters with a different political equation to consider ahead of next year’s general elections.
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SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis prepare to travel to Thessaloniki to provide their responses to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the trade fair on Saturday, the surveillance scandal continues to be a bone of contention between the government and the opposition.
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Opposition lambasts Mitsotakis over support package, accuses PM of election scaremongering
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition parties in Greece have heaped criticism on PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), rejecting both the tone and content of the message in which he set out his government’s economic policies for the coming months.
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PM sets out winter relief measures, rules out change to electoral law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter much speculation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) over the weekend the relief measures his government will adopt over the coming months as it seeks to get Greek voters on board ahead of next year’s elections.
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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parliamentary inquiry into the wiretapping scandal is due to get underway on Wednesday in a tense political atmosphere and with main opposition party SYRIZA believing that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis might try to duck his responsibility by making a quick change to the electoral law and calling snap elections.
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Unveiling of relief package imminent as electoral law speculation is revived
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe countdown to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announcing his government’s latest relief package, one it hopes will shift attention away from the phone-tapping scandal, begins in earnest this week.
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PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis chaired on Wednesday his first cabinet meeting since the phone-tapping scandal took on threatening proportions for his government and the Greek Prime Minister used the opportunity to turn his ministers’ attention to other challenges ahead on the path to the next general election.