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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsto miss out. However, an opinion poll carried out by Metron Analysis for Mega TV suggests that MeRA25... for Skai TV, suggests that MeRA25 is still a long way off the 3 pct threshold and that seven parties.... Reports also suggest that conservative officials are considering merging the Interior and Digital
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politics, a new opinion poll by Marc for ANT-1 TV will have been met with concern by Androulakis and his... TV indicates that 25.1 pct of respondents intend to vote for New Democracy, 14.2 pct for PASOK, 7 pct... Karolos Papoulias in 2005 or Alexis Tsipras choosing former interior minister and New Democracy
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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor this week, as far as the government is concerned, by producing a typically combative TV performance... TV. “It is, in essence, a protest against Mitsotakis.” He added that the Tempe victims... as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister
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Mitsotakis rejects early election talk despite intense speculation, as SYRIZA implodes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthese assurances, speculation about a snap election has intensified. A report on Mega TV...%. A second poll, conducted by Pulse for Skai TV, shows ND maintaining a 13‑point lead over ELAS, though.... These include the activation of the postal voting registration platform, the Interior Ministry’s
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SYRIZA stumbles again on way to May elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSabiha Suleiman, a local Roma activist, as a candidate for the May 25 European Parliament elections. Her candidacy provoked a reaction in the Muslim minority because she favours Roma children
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EU experts concerned about level of xenophobia, violence against migrants in Greece
SocietyXenophobia and violence against migrants reached worrying levels last year in Greece, which among other issues continues to segregate Roma children in some schools, a new report from Europe’s anti..., asylum seekers and migrants and the ongoing segregation of Roma children in some schools, in spite
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Govt responds to report on deadly incident with tougher policing measures, as critics call for rethink
PoliticsGreek Politics-Roma discrimination against the car’s occupants. Reporting of the incident in question by the police... by the officer’s defence lawyer in which he referred to the Roma community as a “scourge of society” and called
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Golden Dawn trial begins against complex political backdrop
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/02/goldendawntorches_myrto_1000_011-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMore than 18 months after rapper Pavlos Fyssas was murdered by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias near Piraeus, the Neo-Nazi party’s leader, MPs and numerous members are going on trial. A total of 69 people, including Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloli...
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Paris attacks change backdrop for Tsipras visit to Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras' first official visit to Turkey (November 18-19) has suddenly turned into perhaps the most crucial visit of a Greek premier to Greece's neighboring country, as it takes place a few days following Paris' terrorist attacks. T...
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Androulakis positions PASOK as alternative to leading parties against phonetapping backdrop
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK leader Nikos Androulakis used his maiden speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Wednesday to hit out at both the ruling New Democracy party and its main rival SYRIZA, in an attempt to position the socialists as a distinct and reali...
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