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Newsletter 435 - 04/10/2024
counting one deputy less as of last week. So, Mitsotakis is focussed on looking ahead and bringing his... constituents angry about the lack of support from central government, while one of the complaints voiced... Commission to secure some leeway on the spending ceilings. The growth of primary spending is one
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsin allowing their dispute to flare up. One thing that New Democracy officials insist... first in nine regions and his challenger only winning one. Androulakis’s strongest performance... someone other than the current leader. However, one of the challenges that Doukas faces is to ensure
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Newsletter 437 - 18/10/2024
in under one political roof the remnants of SYRIZA or other groupings on the left of the country’s.... Discrediting the far right is one way for Mitsotakis to reverse this trend and possibly avoid having to be in the position in a few years of having to share power with one of his rivals as part of a governing
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Newsletter 440 - 08/11/2024
media appears to be in agreement that one of the measures which is unlikely to be considered... crisis, are one of the reasons that public coffers are fuller than expected. New Democracy has repeatedly... by one point, though with negligible effect on take-home pay. In another landmark measure
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Mitsotakis uses healthcare debate to turn anti-SYRIZA rhetoric on PASOK
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA with just 31 seats in Parliament, one seat away from losing its status as official opposition... for being poor value for money. Greece has one of the lowest levels of public healthcare expenditure in the developed world (5 percent compared to the OECD average of 7 pct) and one of the highest
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Newsletter 442 - 22/11/2024
President was one of the topics put on the agenda by Samaras and his supporters, who have made it known... components indicate that the Greek government for another year comes short of what it considers as one... of affordability was one of the decisive factors for the choice of American voters. The Greek
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ND tries to pin 'populist' tag on PASOK as voters show little interest in fuelling two-horse race
PoliticsGreek Politicsa similar form of leftist populism to the one that SYRIZA became associated with in previous years. However... a completely different political proposition to the one SYRIZA became known for. Opinion poll..., putting it on 8 pct. It is followed by SYRIZA on 5.7 pct, after a decline of more than one
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Mitsotakis insists on unity as he builds towards 2027 poll contest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament from 3 to 5 pct. One opinion poll published last week indicated that as many as 10 parties... for 2027 The vote in Parliament on the next president is seen as one of the major upcoming tests of unity within the ruling centre-right party. However, Mitsotakis pointed out that one of the aims
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Newsletter 447 - 17/01/2025
nominate a presidential candidate from a different political space or one, as in the case.... This is a similar strategy to the one that paid off last year. The markets’ view on Greece’s debt and fiscal positions was recently highlighted by Scope Ratings’ decision to push Greece one notch further
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New polls suggest picking party veteran for president helps PM in goal of mobilising ND base
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it attracted at the last general election. Roughly one in five of those who voted for New Democracy... currently supporting one of the array of parties to PASOK’s left. This seems a harder undertaking... it as a unifying nomination, while 39 pct see it as one that divides Greeks. Another 32 pct chose
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