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SYRIZA consumed by new leadership drama as PASOK rubber stamps candidacies
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA’s central committee members to oust Stefanos Kasselakis as the party president has set in motion... after last year’s poor election results, which led to Kasselakis – almost a complete unknown... at least a couple of months for the new leader to be elected. The party’s charter requires a new
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Mitsotakis goaded from right on foreign policy and migration
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn the latest challenge to New Democracy’s dominance over conservative issues, right-wing critics have been lining up to attack the government’s policy on relations with Turkey and migration. Former... on the island, in which he openly questioned the government’s negotiating stance with Turkey. Samaras
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Androulakis shuffles pack in bid to leave SYRIZA behind and close gap on ND
PoliticsGreek Politics”, or policy-making unit, that will be responsible for drafting PASOK’s next manifesto. It is expected that most of the candidates who stook against Androulakis in the first round of voting in PASOK’s... Doukas, who made it into the run-off vote against Androulakis, will have a say in the socialist party’s
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Data protection ruling adds to pressure on New Democracy from ranks
PoliticsGreek Politicscalled on to offer reassurance, this time over the government’s handling of relations with Turkey... and the continental shelf. While the MPs declared themselves satisfied with the minister’s answers, Gerapetritis... of stoking tension with Ankara. The minister’s response, which deflected responsibility on his
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Tactics dominate as Mitsotakis nears decision on presidential nominee
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy MP Yiannis Loverdos suggested recently that 20-30 of the ruling party’s lawmakers are unhappy... nominated her five years ago and lauded the fact that she became the country’s first female president... of the whole of New Democracy’s parliamentary group, such as parliamentary speaker Kostas Tassoulas
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe machinations around the election of Greece’s next president are gathering pace ahead of an expected announcement of the government’s candidate this week. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... that they will have no choice but to support the PM’s nomination if he picks someone with links
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Tempe crash protests renew public pressure on government, give opposition fresh impetus
PoliticsGreek Politicsto account over Greece’s deadliest train accident. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a peaceful... that a report by an independent expert working on behalf of the victim’s relatives indicates... substance was released from the engines following the impact. The victim’s relatives have
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Pressure mounts over Tempe handling as PM ponders reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the premier’s insistence that the government is doing all it can to shed light on the country’s worst rail... inconclusive vote on Friday, when the government’s candidate Konstatinos Tasoulas received 160 votes... Gerapetritis can return to the PM’s office. Damage continues Developments over the weekend only
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Public seems convinced of cover up as PM struggles to escape Tempe tremors
PoliticsGreek Politicsa major point of contention as the victims’ families believe that, acting on the government’s... of the prosecutor’s file have not been made public but PASOK believes that there is enough in there to suggest... for Parliament to lift Triantopoulos’s immunity so he can face a special court. The government’s
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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMakis Voridis. Although, the number of ministers taking to the media to deliver the government’s line... and Voridis, the two most prominent members of New Democracy’s right wing, have been at the forefront... aside. Although the PM’s popularity has taken a hit over the last few weeks and he is under growing
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