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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the June 9 elections, where it garnered just 28.3 percent of the vote rather than the goal of 33 percent... 15 percent of the vote rather than the 20 percent he had said he aspired to. The tone of the posts...” from his predecessors and would prefer to rationalise spending rather than seek bank loans or dark
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Eurobank gears up for crucial but contentious capital increase
EconomyBanking), to sell its shares in the lender at not only less than it bought them last year but less than... and PASOK veteran Apostolos Kaklamanis also refused to support it during the March 30 vote. Papandreou
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PM and SYRIZA deaf to calls for compromise over president so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat he was expressing a personal opinion rather than a party position. Another PASOK lawmaker, Nikos... opens a discussion about a compromise deal he will probably have to give more ground than he wants... Bakoyannis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikitas Kaklamanis) to start publicly suggesting that the government look
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SYRIZA rebels poised to launch new group after split
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinues to be dogged by the same-sex marriage issue, rather than become embroiled in a battle... main opponent rather than their former party. This will be a tricky line to tread as their former... comment prompted New Democracy MP Nikitas Kaklamanis to argue that any minister not willing to vote
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Mitsotakis tours ministries as government looks for measures to improve public mood
PoliticsGreek Politicsto political stability due to its stance on the Tempe issue than the opposition, while 30 pct think... Nikitas Kaklamanis, an ND lawmaker, rejected calls from the opposition for the inquiry to be chaired by a cross-party presidency rather than just by MPs from the ruling party. PASOK representative Milena
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New Democracy rejigs key party posts as Spartiates expulsion leaves gap in Parliament
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament was left with 297 MPs rather than the full complement of 300 after the Electoral Court ruled... experts, as well as the Speaker, Nikitas Kaklamanis, leading the party to revise its stance in later statements. By law, Parliament can function as long as it has more than 200 sitting members, however
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Confidence vote debate sets tone for Greek political clashes to come
PoliticsGreek Politicsare visible and this will prove a bigger problem for Samaras and Venizelos than the actual vote.... former MP Nikitas Kaklamanis on Thursday. The independent lawmaker’s return takes the number
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Newsletter 438 - 25/10/2024
PoliticsInternal squabbles trouble ND more than oppositionDespite PASOK settling its leadership issues, New Democracy does not appear to yet be under immediate threat from the social democrats or any... Kaklamanis, had earlier tried to corner Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis with a parliamentary question
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Parliamentary chicanery raises doubt about PM’s grip on party as he looks ahead to relief package
PoliticsGreek Politicsface a general parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE affair rather than a preliminary judicial probe.... The opposition parties called on parliamentary speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis (New Democracy) to declare
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Opposition unable to join forces over recognition of Palestinian state
PoliticsGreek Politicsby arguing the communiqué was an “isolated initiative” rather than an official European Council position... Kaklamanis requesting a special session to “update and confirm” a 2015 resolution when the House agreed
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