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Kammenos antics put extra pressure on SYRIZA's minority govt
PoliticsGreek PoliticsScientific Council rejected a request from the Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader for a change to the rule... elected with the party in question. ANEL currently has six lawmakers, but one was elected... Papachristopoulos, who voted for the Macedonia name deal. This would leave ANEL without an official
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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Coalition crisis on hold as Kammenos eases up
PoliticsGreek Politics. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who also leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... soften his stance when he denied that he had demanded that Tsipras should dismiss Mouzalas. The ANEL..., for Tsipras to take a decision. His demeanour after the meeting of ANEL's parliamentary group on Thursday
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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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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicslongevity after suggesting that he would pull his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out of the government... (at least 180 out of 300 MPs) in Parliament. The ANEL leader suggested that he would trigger national... to be that the vote in Greek Parliament will be the trigger for SYRIZA and ANEL to pave the way for a managed
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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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Tsipras and Kammenos vow to stick together until further notice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAssembly, but not before publicly making up with his coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader... that had begun between SYRIZA and ANEL amid fears that this could detract from the government’s... four years, there have been several occasions on which SYRIZA and ANEL appeared to be veering off
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After Kotzias departure, Tsipras hopes for clear path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicscoalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). The prime minister appeared concerned about his..., was the suggestion by an ANEL spokesman that the party might support a censure motion by New Democracy... meeting. It did not go unnoticed that after the ministerial gathering, the ANEL leader rejected
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out of the coalition. Kammenos and Kotzias reportedly argued over the use... with coalition partners ANEL. left-wing political movement he leads, Pratto, is not a party and not able to take... and to ensure that the process is no longer questioned publicly by ANEL, who might be reluctant to query
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