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Party leaders back on road with rival election pledges after Easter break
PoliticsGreek Politicsand women. One of the areas where New Democracy is promising to do more is supporting the housing needs... as one of the construction sites for the Athens metro extension, before travelling.... On Monday, SYRIZA announced that it had expelled one of its MEPs after the Belgian authorities
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Mitsotakis asks voters for four more years to deliver high-wage, low-tax programme
PoliticsGreek Politicsdecisions in line with the European average. Finally, on security, which New Democracy considers one... to lead a coalition, but it was the only pragmatic one given the results indicated by the polls. On the one hand, Tsipras’s statement could be read as an acknowledgement that he is abandoning
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Newsletter 380 - 12/05/2023
benefits for civil servants. Public sector employees with one child will receive a monthly bonus.... This prompted one of the few interactive moments of the debate as SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras used... the stakes over this issue in one of his own responses, calling for those involved in setting up
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Fresh elections on the cards as SYRIZA reluctantly confronts full scale of defeat
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be sworn in before Parliament is dissolved and a caretaker government appointed by the president of one... of the unemployed. One of the most telling results was that 54 percent of self-employed voters opted... to reverse ND’s reforms to social security, potentially leading to higher contributions. This was one
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Formalities proceed, paving way for June 25 vote and tough questions for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be divided within SYRIZA about whether Tsipras should stay on. On one hand he has become..., after June 25 he will have suffered three general election defeats and one loss in the 2019 European... seek re-elections. The survey indicated that the weakness of the opposition was one of the key reasons
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ND doubles down on tax as leaders target weak spots on electoral map
PoliticsGreek Politics, repeated by Skertsos, that VAT cuts will not get passed on to consumers is one that critics have used... taxation. The leftists claimed that ND’s emergency support measures, which used one-off levies from... the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia, where ND secured one of the smallest margins in May with just 33
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Newsletter 384 - 09/06/2023
believe that one of the potential threats to their goal of achieving a comfortable majority... was a stronger role for the state in the banking sector, with a controlling interest in at least one... sign came from the investment front, which stems from one of the underreported factors in capital
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Mitsotakis seeks to banish health system concerns with reform pledge, candidate removal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has stated that reforming Greece’s health service will be one of his main goals... police. New Democracy became embroiled in further controversy on Thursday when one of the party’s MPs..., when one of its senior officials suggested that the leftists would introduce changes
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Mitsotakis names extensive cabinet with dose of renewal
PoliticsGreek Politicsof six female members can be considered a step change, especially when just four of 20 ministries, one... economic recovery. One of his key election pledges was that the average monthly salary in Greece would... indicated that one of the first bills that he will submit to Parliament will contain the economic measures
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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring the two elections campaign, marking him out as one of the few frontline officials who... backs one of the candidates for the leadership or maintains a neutral stance. SYRIZA has suffered... is that one party might subsume the other or that SYRIZA continues to fade to the point
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