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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societygranted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively... the Interior Ministry. Chrisochoidis appointed the ministry under former Prime Minister George
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politics. On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Parliament lifting restrictions on Greeks voting... voters has so far gathered 300 registrations, out of what the Interior Ministry estimates
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Greece aiming to agree updated migration deal with Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyJohansson and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the Greek minister said there is more cooperation... following the EU Interior minister’s council that “in my view this statement (EU-Turkey deal) should
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore receiving an email from the Interior Ministry regarding the postal vote. The inference... available and does not contain contact information. The Interior Ministry issued a statement denying
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsfirst in nine regions and his challenger only winning one. Androulakis’s strongest performance was in his native Crete, where he took almost 62 pct of the votes. Epirus, in northwestern Greece... of those who voted for third-placed Geroulanos and fourth-placed Diamantopoulou, who took 21.1 and 19.5
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Why Greece’s ‘also ran’ parties are crucial
AgoraDemocracy, which took 1.19 million votes (18.85 percent). In the second election in June, the 15 of them who could afford to run again took 368,277 votes, or almost 6 percent. That was more than... by these small parties totals 5 percent, for example, the winning party would need 38.4 percent to take
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PASOK emerges victorious from first round of centre-left leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politics(404,078) of those who took part in the first round of voting for the New Democracy leadership in December... support to qualify. Gennimata took over from Venizelos in June 2015 after a vote among some 50,000... the winning candidate is able to establish unity, build on whatever momentum the leadership contest
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Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
PoliticsGreek Politicsthrew Molotov cocktails at the building. “Greeks feel unprotected,” he said as he took part... of the police after the latest incident. Earlier, Gerovassili, who only took charge of the public order... the government’s opportunity of winning back some of the support it has lost over the previous years by engaging
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