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New parties redraw political map as ND and PASOK scramble for control
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Polls prompt ND to crunch coalition numbers as Tsipras turns attention to policy
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Left poised for watershed moment as parties adjust to new opposition landscape
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PASOK on edge amid disagreement over engagement with new Tsipras party
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New Democracy and PASOK challenged by arrival of new parties
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ND and PASOK turn fire on Tsipras’s new party as political tension escalates
Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to strengthen his connection with the working class – a section of society where his party is competing for votes with SYRIZA, which has repeatedly highlighted its efforts to protect the most vulnerable, such as strengthening labour rights and using part of this year’s fiscal overperformance to provide money to struggling households.
The conservatives are due to begin their “pre-conferences” ahead of the main party event in December in the working class neighbourhood of Nikaia, near Piraeus, on Sunday. ND spokesman Vassilis Kikilias said on Thursday that this was a deliberate choice...
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