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Podcast - Party people: SYRIZA vs Kasselakis
SYRIZA, the leftist party that experienced a stunning rise to power from the fringes of Greek politics, has elected a new leader but will it be enough to rescue it from its slide back to the sidelines?
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Politics (410), Greece (523)
Greek politics goes from stability to state of flux
Less than 18 months since New Democracy, Greece’s ruling centre-right party, won a comfortable victory in the general elections, leaving the two main opposition parties of the left, SYRIZA and PASOK, so far behind that dominance for many years seemed almost a certainty, the country’s politics is in flux again.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (410), Greece (523)
Podcast - Internal combustion problems leave New Democracy spluttering
In mid-November, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis decided to expel from the ruling New Democracy party one of his predecessors, Antonis Samaras. Why did Mitsotakis make this dramatic move and what it could mean not only for unity within New Democracy, but also for the stability of the Greek government?
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Politics (410), Greece (523)
Podcast - Leading questions: What was the point of PASOK's leadership vote?
Nikos Androulakis has been re-elected as leader of PASOK, the centre-left party that is hoping to establish itself as the main opposition party in Greece and, ultimately, challenge centre-right New Democracy for power.
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Politics (410), Greece (523)
Greece courts danger
This could go down as the week that Greek justice took over from Liz Truss as the world’s briefest joke. It would be funny if it wasn’t so worrying.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (410), Society (149), Greece (523)