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New Democracy heads for leadership vote as opposition ponders poll result
PoliticsGreek Politicscampaign, will run in the contest. He has the backing of the party wing that is loyal to former Prime... during the election campaign. The two MPs, who joined New Democracy from ultra-nationalist Popular... believe that they had a good campaign after seeing their share of the vote increase from 4.6
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Newsletter 44 - 25/09/2015
an election campaign that resulted in a surprisingly comfortable win for Alexis Tsipras, handing him..., in this election campaign he never disguised his desire to work again with the nationalist party and its... Theodorakis has called a congress for early December to discuss where the party went wrong in the campaign
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Tsipras seeks alternatives to bailout measures as ND race begins
PoliticsGreek Politicspledge to implement the “parallel programme” that SYRIZA proposed during the election campaign... to collect the signatures he needed underlined his weak starting position. His campaign has not been... target. The confusion surrounding his inclusion on the list of candidates gave his campaign the kind
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Leadership race brings New Democracy factionalism to the surface
PoliticsGreek Politicscandidates. One of them, ex-Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, abandoned his national campaign...” campaign in the July 5 referendum but has since gone on to argue that he has the skills to retain the role for the long-term. The insurgent campaign of Central Macedonia Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas
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New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsprofile during the campaign despite trailing his rival by some distance in the first round last month... levels of the party may prove more potent on Sunday than Mitsotakis’s active campaign, which included.... Significantly, Mitsotakis used only his first name during the campaign. Also despite his best efforts
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Erdogan comments draw new, but cautious, response from Athens
PoliticsForeign PolicyErdogan University (RTEU) in the province of Rize on Saturday about the campaign to recapture Mosul... of the campaign to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, as Turkey has been excluded so far from this military campaign which has the support of Western allies led by the US. These comments were made just
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An unsettling role-reversal for Greece and Germany
AgoraGrexit as an option during the campaign, made a strong return to frontline German politics. The 12.6... the election campaign, Merkel suggested that the European Union accession process for Turkey should... from the programme in 2018. The FDP has taken a hardline stance on Greece during the campaign
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ND steers greater attention towards institutional failings as elections approach
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAmong the dominant themes in the upcoming election campaign in Greece will be the state... to the domestic audience in the upcoming election campaign. Given that New Democracy’s efforts over... of Greece’s economic crisis. He will also look to take advantage of this during SYRIZA’s campaign.
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Tsipras, Mitsotakis tone down personal attacks but intensify clash over policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsof benefits that create the basis of a welfare state. In the current prolonged campaign, the government..., the government is certain to use this issue in the remaining two weeks of the campaign, just as it has done... up the final two weeks of the campaign and strike a note of optimism for his party, which
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Mitsotakis appeals to centre-ground voters in bid to score decisive victory
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is spending the final days of the campaign before Sunday’s... that this will help clinch a decisive victory for his campaign. Although the conservatives maintain a significant... is trying to target as the campaign reaches its climax. In a radio interview on Wednesday, he
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