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Campaigns reach conclusion as polls indicate surprises are unlikely
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAhead of Sunday’s vote, Greece’s political leaders are wrapping up what has been a somewhat erratic... company. The dwindling interest in Sunday’s vote, accompanied by the warm weather, is fuelling... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set a score of around 33 pct as the party’s target for Sunday’s vote
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PM set to avoid kneejerk reaction to poor EP poll result as centre left mulls next move
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s assessment of Sunday’s disappointing European Parliament... for another party. Sunday’s elections produced the lowest ever turnout in Greece, at just over 40 pct. He... on the left. According to the exit poll conducted on Sunday, the conservatives also lost 5.3 pct
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy into his government. Shaken by his centre-right party’s poor result in Sunday’s... underperfomance on Sunday, he probably feels that he does not have the latitude to make any bold... to Sunday’s results, he did not feel that he could take any risks with his choices. This was emphasised
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Tempe crash protests renew public pressure on government, give opposition fresh impetus
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLarge protests were held across Greece on Sunday to support the calls for justice in the case..., as was evident from the turnout for the demonstrations on Sunday. Opinion polls have shown over the last.... Opposition action Apart from the relatively high level of participation in Sunday’s demonstrations
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Government fears losing momentum to new Tempe backlash as GSI tensions rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisaster is being managed. In his regular Sunday social media post, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis...’ families, including Course of Freedom leader Zoe Konstantopoulou, to stir up publicity. On Sunday... attention on Sunday to a different type of concern, away from domestic politics, as a tense
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More concern for coalition than cheer for SYRIZA in latest poll figures
PoliticsGreek Politicspoints more than the vacuous anti-memorandum Independent Greeks. This can hardly be a cause...-fulfilling prophecy. The government will not be heartened by the fact that anti-memorandum sentiment
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Golden Dawn fallout forces Samaras into balancing act between country and party
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Antonis Samaras was probably expecting the latest troika review of Greece’s adjustment program to be his biggest worry at this time of year. Instead, the murder of an anti-fascist.... To some extent, this is a problem of his own party’s making as its strong anti-immigration line
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Puzzling reaction to army reservists' call for government to resign
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat are a mix of anti-bailout fantasy and military bombast. Apart from asking for the government... and Justice ministries to meet Supreme Court prosecutors, including one responsible for overseeing anti
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Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsprosecutor Yiannis Tentes took over a newly created post in the summer as Greece’s anti-corruption supremo. He will coordinate efforts to tackle graft and draw up a national anti-corruption strategy
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Words will always hurt
Agorafor the Communist past and every anti-capitalist or eurosceptic pronouncement made by the parties of the European... poise. Last month, the leader of the anti-bailout Independent Greeks, Panos Kammenos, suggested
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