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Coalition back-and-forth over name deal belies election strategy
PoliticsGreek Politics, thereby dismissing the request made by Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos. The ANEL chief had suggested on Tuesday that the agreement with Skopje should be approved... be to call snap elections. It seems that despite Kammenos’s claims that the government will not see
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Tsipras planning for life without Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call on the support of some opposition and independent MPs to get the required support. Apart... Papachristipoulos of ANEL for support. He is also counting on the backing of four of the six To Potami... the support of ANEL and that a parliamentary majority could be maintained. The reality of the matter
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Newsletter 180 -26/10/2018
Independent Greeks (ANEL), Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is not thinking of altering his plans. Reports... that the prime minister will be able to call on the support of some opposition and independent MPs to get... Kountoura and MP Thanassis Papachristipoulos of ANEL for support. He is also counting on the backing
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Mitsotakis scoffs at coalition's MoU exit strategy, challenges PM to elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has challenged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call snap elections this year... of a general election later this year. “If SYRIZA and ANEL (Independent Greeks) mean all.... And if they are not afraid of New Democracy, let them take us on.” Mitsotakis said he challenged Tsipras to call
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To Potami expected to provide clinching votes in vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek Politics(ANEL) MPs Elena Kountoura and Thanassis Papachristopoulos, independent lawmaker Katerina Papakosta... that the conditions have improved following the departure of ANEL from the coalition for a discussion... of its contents. The PM’s office also repeated its call for there to be a TV debate between Tsipras
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Cyprus cable dispute and Crete mafia case cast fresh clouds over TIF reset agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicswas a wiretapped phone call in which a defence minister agrees to intervene in favour a candidate for the Metropolis of Kydonia. Panos Kammenos, former head of the ANEL (Independent Greeks) party who served as defence minister in the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, is heard in conversation with one of gang’s
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Political turbulence due to name deal creates election doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), was ousted from his party. This leaves the coalition with just a three-seat majority... with FYROM because the pact was not supported by the whole coalition as ANEL leader and Defence... will intensify about how long ANEL will be able to prop up the coalition. Given that the next elections
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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