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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAmid growing speculation that Alexis Tsipras is thinking of rejecting the option of holding snap general elections in May, the prime minister has given the strongest public indication yet that he wants his government to see out its four-year term. During an event organised in Athens on Monday
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Top spots in judiciary spark new clash in build-up to snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s final cabinet meeting will possibly be held this Thursday, before snap elections are officially called on Monday, but a row has broken out about whether the SYRIZA administration will remain in power and if it should have the ability to appoint the country’s top judges before
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PM dismisses possibility of snap elections, sets out vaccine flow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has dismissed speculation that he is considering calling snap elections later this year and has indicated that Greece’s latest lockdown is likely to be relaxed in the coming days. These were the two dominant issues to emerge from the broad interview given
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Tsipras on alert for snap elections, but Mitsotakis looks set to stay course
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has suggested that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis could call snap elections early next year, several months before the government’s four-year term expires, but the chances of such a move appear slim for the time being. Tsipras suggested this week that Mitsotakis
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Even week for Greek stocks but trading thins out
Economylowest since August 2012. Investors remain concerned about the outcome of snap elections... reopened after a 5-week pause due to the bank holiday. Banks showed high volatility plunging by almost
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Tsipras focussed on MoU exit in 2018 but will have to avoid pitfalls
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call snap elections if the two coalition partners are not on the same page. “This government exists... be composite, with a geographic qualifier and for use in all situations, as opposed to just in its dealings
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Thessaloniki rally highlights political complexities of addressing name issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot necessarily be against the idea of snap elections, holding them before Greece has exited its bailout... a solution based on a composite name with a geographical qualifier, but there are a number of New
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Political talks on name issue deepen divisions but PM eyes consensus
PoliticsGreek Politics, if Tsipras is contemplating the idea of calling snap elections later this year anyway, it may provide... Theodorakis suggested that his party would support a composite name in Slavic and suggested
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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe end of the third programme in August (if these events unfold earlier) before he calls snap... to accept a composite name for Greece’s neighbour. New Democracy has responded by suggesting
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsno intention of calling snap elections. Dismissing speculation that the national vote could be held... minister has not yet made a final decision and the option of a snap election in May is still open... and will not drop their level of intensity if there are no snap general elections. New Democracy
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