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Newsletter 39 - 21/08/2015
highest court (usually the Supreme Court) as caretaker prime minister and call elections to be held.... Fulfilling both desires would require a gold medal-winning balancing act on the political high beam. Tsipras
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
in early 2007 to -6.8 percent this year. You could continue to go through this roll call of “read ’em... chance of winning: Current leader Evangelos Meimarakis and Central Macedonia Governor Apostolos
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Greece watches closely as Turkey prepares for referendum
PoliticsForeign Policy. If "No" is to prevail, the same sources claim that all possibilities are open. Either Erdogan will call early... that "we would like to see “Yes” winning in the upcoming referendum instead of “No,” even though we
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Greece's foreign policy trap
AgoraDonald Trump’s recent call for a de-escalation in Afrin fell on deaf ears in Ankara. The US... Kurdish YPG militia fighters. Last April, Erdogan was able to extend his powers after winning
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ANEL adds to uncertainty over Macedonia name deal and its political impact
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe name deal, SYRIZA, which has 145 MPs, believes it will be able to call on the support of 2-3... if he is going to have a chance of winning seats. As such, it is very difficult to predict what his
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SYRIZA confident of survival beyond name deal, confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicscall a vote of confidence and if all seven ANEL MPs abstain, SYRIZA’s 145 MPs would be enough... if it submits a censure motion. Tsipras also knows that he has a good chance of winning a confidence vote
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SYRIZA sets out strategy for European vote with eye on general elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Tsipras to wait until the end of the government’s four-year term and call elections in September... Georgiadis suggested that the party’s aim should be to get a minimum of 26 percent support and a winning
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Greek elections: Just the (decisive) details to be settled
Agorahim that the best strategy is to call elections as soon as possible (maybe in June). Holding snap... the 3 percent entry ceiling), the lower the threshold the winning party will need. Pollsters concur
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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek Politics, the size of the defeat meant that this would not be possible politically. He will call snap elections... (KKE) 5.7 percent (2 MEPs) and Golden Dawn 4.8 percent (2 MEPs). Beyond the considerable winning
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No late rally for Tsipras
Agoraperiod, meant that Tsipras had no option but to call snap general elections. Given that the tendency... winning the national vote, possibly on June 30, but also gaining an absolute majority in Parliament
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