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The Greek election's winners and losers
AgoraA clear win for New Democracy, a manageable defeat for SYRIZA, Golden Dawn being booted out...) in the past. Golden Dawn The inability of Golden Dawn, which gained 2.93 percent, to enter Parliament.... Golden Dawn lost almost 215,000 votes compared to September 2015. A new addition to Parliament this time
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Is New Democracy really trying to ease political tension?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAddressing the nation in the wake of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas's murder by a Golden Dawn... together Greece's leftist parties as "extreme opposition." "The cases of Golden Dawn on the one hand... with the so-called "theory of the two extremes". As the theory would have it, if Golden Dawn is one
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SYRIZA's poll lead consistent but parliamentary majority elusive
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Golden Dawn favourite for this spot but some pollsters suggest that PASOK is not far behind. A Kapa... SYRIZA 28.1 ND 25.5 Potami 6.5 G Dawn 5.4 PASOK 5.2 KKE 5 Papandreou 2.8 Ind Grks 2.6 Other 4.1 Undecid... ND 28 Potami 4.5 G Dawn 4.2 PASOK 4 KKE 3.7 Ind Grks 2.2 Papandreou 1.5 Other 4.4 Undecided 9.6
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New Democracy on course for clear majority, opinion polls suggest
PoliticsGreek Politicslike to squeeze Greek Solution and neoNazi Golden Dawn to such an extent that they fail to meet... support away from Greek Solution and Golden Dawn, as well as attract more undecided Greeks or those who... percent, SYRIZA on 23.7, KINAL 6.2, KKE 5.1, Golden Dawn 4.6, MeRA25, the party led by former finance
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Govt holds off on new Covid-19 measures as public reacts to GD ruling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs Greece keenly waits for the sentencing process in the Golden Dawn trial to be completed... in the Golden Dawn case indicates that the Greek public is largely pleased with the outcome, but it also... percent. Despite Golden Dawn being declared a criminal organisation and its political activities being
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SYRIZA ups stakes over bankruptcy code as govt faces embarrassment over missing GD bigwig
PoliticsGreek Politicsdevelopments, such as Covid-19 and the sentencing in the Golden Dawn trial. By tabling the motion... of buying it back after 12 years. Golden Dawn New Democracy has also been put on the spot over the apparent absconding of Golden Dawn deputy leader Christos Pappas, who has not appeared before authorities
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Samaras and Venizelos rule out elections but can't be sure they won't happen
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalitions has decided against calling snap elections in the wake of Golden Dawn arrests... elections now. Venizelos went a stepped further and tried to double guess the 12 Golden Dawn MPs... they represent. This would require around half of the Greek electorate to go to the polls as Golden Dawn
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Polls give New Democracy wafer-thin lead over SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA and had Golden Dawn as Greece’s third biggest party, reaffirming the figures that have... percent, against SYRIZA’s 20.5. Golden Dawn was at 7.8 percent, still surprisingly high but lower... vs 21.1 percent. Golden Dawn remained the third most popular with 6.9 percent. The same polling
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Violent clashes at Thessaloniki school turn focus on neo-Nazi youth recruitment
PoliticsGreek Politics, while raising fears about the resurgence of neo-Nazi groups a year after the leaders of Golden Dawn... of Golden Dawn. The events have highlighted what some claim is a recruitment campaign by local members of Golden Dawn targeting students at the school, which is located in a low-income area of Greece’s
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Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe outlawing of Golden Dawn. Secondly, Bodganos was only recently given a “yellow card” by New Democracy... themselves with Golden Dawn, suggesting that the foreign minister felt his colleague...,” concluded Dendias, who has in the past earned plaudits for confronting Golden Dawn MPs head
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