PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL
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The focus on the first round of voting in the PASOK leadership ballot has come as welcome distraction for New Democracy, allowing the spotlight to move away quickly from the fact that two of the conservative party’s former leaders chose not to attend the celebration of ND’s 50th anniversary on Friday.

The fact that the two ex-prime minister, Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis, were absent from the street party held outside ND’s traditional headquarters in central Athens was interpreted as a sign of how deep the rift between the to veteran politici...

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