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Newsletter 424 - 24/05/2024
the ruling party’s dominance. All the indications are that SYRIZA and PASOK will fail to make a significant dent in ND’s political dominance and that the best they can hope for are to take some crumbs..., published on Monday, puts New Democracy’s projected share of the vote at 33.3 pct, compared to 15.5 pct
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Greece courts danger
AgoraThis 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. On Tuesday, Greece’s Supreme Court announced... that the court’s decision does not stand up to any reasonable scrutiny. A few days before Adelini
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Mitsotakis argues there is no alternative as SYRIZA officials push Kasselakis out
PoliticsGreek Politicsin his task of trying to convince voters that New Democracy is the safest bet for Greece’s future... round of introspection and infighting as the majority of the party’s central committee members voted... following his speech was that whatever gripes they may have about his administration’s performance
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the conservative party’s former leaders chose not to attend the celebration of ND’s 50th anniversary... the street party held outside ND’s traditional headquarters in central Athens was interpreted... policies in the wake of the disappointing result for New Democracy in this summer’s European Parliament
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Androulakis reaffirmed as PASOK leader, ending talk of centre-left alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicschallenger Haris Doukas in Sunday’s run-off vote, handing the Cretan politician a fresh opportunity to generate momentum for his centre-left party, perhaps boosted by SYRIZA’s ongoing disintegration... and pledged to work on growing PASOK’s support. The second reading of his message is that under his
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Government preparing U-turn on controversial tax measure in bid to win back self-employed
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the government’s plans is the prospect of abolishing the objective taxation criteria for self-employed workers by the end of the administration’s second term in 2027. The move would represent a U-turn...’s EP elections. The business daily Naftemporiki reports that an amendment to the Finance Ministry
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Greek politics goes from stability to state of flux
AgoraLess than 18 months since New Democracy, Greece’s ruling centre-right party, won a comfortable..., so far behind that dominance for many years seemed almost a certainty, the country’s politics... Democracy’s leader, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has become caught up in a public row over
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Newsletter 444 - 06/12/2024
a full explanation. Wednesday’s meeting was engineered on the occasion of PASOK's elevation to the status of main opposition following the unravelling of SYRIZA, which made Androulakis the PM’s main... as naysayers standing in the way of reform. Earlier in the week, PASOK reacted to the PM’s insistence that he
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Mitsotakis gets policy ball rolling as clues sought for decision on next president
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggested that the economy was to be the main topic of discussion at the PM’s gathering with his ministers... followed Thursday’s funeral service for late PM Costas Simitis with an even keener eye, looking for clues that might point to the identity of Mitsotakis’s nominee. They noted, for instance
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Divided, weak opposition gives Konstantopoulou boost and PM Mitsotakis space
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe disarray among Greece’s opposition parties, which was underlined again this weekend... away from SYRIZA during Stefanos Kasselakis’s short-lived leadership of the leftist party, has rejected the idea of returning to its former political home. New Left’s central committee held a vote over
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