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Kasselakis ousting confirmed as SYRIZA slips in polls, which also carry warnings for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsopinion poll suggested there has been a significant drop in support for the leftist party. SYRIZA’s... – backing for SYRIZA has dropped to 7 pct, from 11.1 pct in June. This places SYRIZA fifth, behind... point of view is that the latest percentage is higher than New Democracy’s share, which has fallen to 41
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PASOK sets terms for leadership debate as voters show mild interest in vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK has decided the framework for the debate between its six leadership candidates as a new... leading candidates held a week later. The race has not captured much of the public’s imagination so.... Of course, PASOK’s next leader could see this figure as evidence that the party has a significant pool
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Middle East escalation prompts government concerns about migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Israel. The Greek air force has already made available a transport plane to evacuate Cypriot... be the unarmed civilians of the wider region. A senior diplomatic source has briefed the state news agency ANA-MPA that Greece has taken the initiative of forming a special task force made up of foreign
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Kasselakis set to be excluded from SYRIZA leadership bid after row over assets
PoliticsGreek Politicsopponents via the party organs in the latest twist in the drama that has consumed the main opposition... to block his candidacy in the leadership elections, while one of his leading critics has called for his... candidates. One of the features of the upcoming contest has been the introduction of tighter
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Ministers dispatched to deal with disgruntled MPs as cost of living complaints dog ND
PoliticsGreek Politicscolleagues that the government has been doing its best to manage inflation and improve earnings, focussing... rebuffed the minister’s invitation to express his concerns to him privately. Vlachos has become a thorn... Hatzidakis, which Vlachos co-signed with 10 of his colleagues. The MP has since pursued the finance
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Government preparing U-turn on controversial tax measure in bid to win back self-employed
PoliticsGreek Politicsbill that has just been put to consultation contains a provision that would enable it to axe... plan to abolish the unpopular measure has not been officially announced. On Thursday, Mitsotakis... sentiment that has built up around the administration’s handling of the economy and the impending fiscal
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Role of inflation in US elections gives government food for thought
EconomyMacroeconomyas the cost of living has caused strain in the household budgets of large parts of the American public... pct in the national elections a year earlier. New Democracy has also been consistently performing poorly in opinion polls since the June ballot. The government is well aware that it has little room
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Mitsotakis uses healthcare debate to turn anti-SYRIZA rhetoric on PASOK
PoliticsGreek Politics. This is a tactic the New Democracy leader has taken to deploying since it became evident... to PASOK. Mitsotakis has been making the case that the social democrats are morphing into their left... for being poor value for money. Greece has one of the lowest levels of public healthcare expenditure
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PASOK emerges as main beneficiary in reshuffling of political deck
PoliticsGreek Politicsat SYRIZA has seen the official opposition’s party slide to fifth place with 6.6 pct, behind... the political deck has been reshuffled dramatically in the last few months. Collectively, SYRIZA splinter... pct. This pattern, which has become entrenched over the last year, is deeply troubling
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Mitsotakis tries to move on from Samaras row but more fallout may follow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attempted to draw a line under his spat with former Premier... not make his intentions clear now that he has been ousted from the party’s parliamentary group. New..., Mitsotakis stressed that his government has a comfortable parliamentary majority
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