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After Kotzias departure, Tsipras hopes for clear path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicscoalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). The prime minister appeared concerned about his..., was the suggestion by an ANEL spokesman that the party might support a censure motion by New Democracy... meeting. It did not go unnoticed that after the ministerial gathering, the ANEL leader rejected
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Tsipras maps out path to next elections via Prespes Agreement and possible confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor a confidence vote in Parliament should his coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos... that if the ANEL chief decides to rescind his backing for the coalition as a result of the Macedonia... a political crisis. The prime minister noted that there would be no issue if the ANEL leader decides
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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Small parties suffer as Parliament edges towards vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks/ANEL), Deputy Citizens’ Protection Minister Katerina Papakosta, Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis and his two remaining MPs Giorgos Mavrotas and Spyros Likoudis, former ANEL lawmaker Thanassis... behind it a trail of destruction as far as the Greek political scene is concerned. KINAL and ANEL Apart
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SYRIZA encounters first obstacles in governing with minority of MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) earlier this month. In a vote of Parliament’s public organisations committee... of an ANEL MP during the “in principle” ballot meant that there was a danger of the draft law not having the necessary support to be adopted. The ANEL MP later complained that he had gone to the toilet
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoracoalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), with which Greek Solution has some similarities. ANEL went... career (at least for now) of its leader Panos Kammenos. Many of the 155,000 votes ANEL lost ended up... the last four years. In September 2015, around 580,000 voters backed Golden Dawn and ANEL. On Sunday
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Samaras and Venizelos rule out elections but can't be sure they won't happen
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat have not been arrested by suggesting they would not dare to resign en masse and create... by abusing the right of its deputies to resign their positions, it should be prevented from doing so... of their title. So, if the others do not resign in the meantime, there will be no elections. SYRIZA, however
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After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
PoliticsGreek Politicsdoctors being forced to resign was raised. “Over the last year there has been no break with bad old... CEO Anthimos Thomopoulos to resign. The HFSF denied this was the case and Tsakalotos reportedly dodged..., initially resisted calls for her to resign but eventually stepped down. Revenues chief It was not until
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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe opposition for the coalition to resign. PASOK and To Potami immediately called for State Minister Nikos Pappas, who was the architect of the process, to resign. Given that Pappas is Alexis Tsipras’s closest... that the government should resign because of the failure of the TV licence tender
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of tension between the coalition partners emerged last week. Independent Greeks (ANEL) refused... through Parliament. Also, ANEL leader and Defence Minister publicly criticised Education Minister..., particularly as the upcoming leadership election in New Democracy may leave the ANEL president
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