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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 438 - 25/10/2024
data protection authority released its findings on the email leak which led to the withdrawal of one.... With the EU having disbursed close to half of the available envelope, Greece is one of the most active... been one of the strongest in its arsenal. During the presentation of its quarterly report this week
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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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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the one dominating the political centre in Greece – a space that the social democrats want to compete... in joining forces with SYRIZA over this issue, arguing that Mitsotakis is the one that needs to make... and others on the left into power. Opinion polls One of PASOK’s main difficulties is being able
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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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