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Opposition parties vow to reverse public healthcare reforms
PoliticsGreek Politics. This includes the government’s proposal that doctors working in the public healthcare system also be allowed... supported the legislation at the time, but New Democracy had opposed it. PASOK’s parliamentary... to the centre-left and left working together. Tsipras used the opportunity to highlight his party’s plan
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Tsipras on alert for snap elections, but Mitsotakis looks set to stay course
PoliticsGreek Politicselections early next year, several months before the government’s four-year term expires... to dissolve the House and head to early elections. According to the SYRIZA leader’s thinking, the PM..., New Democracy will again be able to secure a majority and the possibility of Tsipras’s party playing
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PM turns on PASOK, sees opportunity to revive dwindling support
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot to back the socialists in next year’s elections, as a new opinion poll shows support... that exclusively relates to PASOK and that Greece’s third party should bear the brunt of any political... the MEP. On Wednesday, speaking in Brussels, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that Androulakis’s
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SYRIZA pushes alternative cost-of-living package but govt support still a vote-winner
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe surprise announcement of a “Market Pass” for hard-pressed shoppers in the prime minister’s budget statement has attracted strong criticism from the opposition. New Democracy’s main rival SYRIZA... the latest poll suggests that the government’s measures continue to give the conservatives the edge
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ND turns tables on SYRIZA over sleaze, tweaks stance on ex-king's funeral
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that the government’s decision was driven by a fear that there would be a hostile response from... to. Constantine’s body will also lie in state for four hours before the funeral. The government claims the latter was agreed between the late monarch’s family and the Church of Greece. The adjustments reflect
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Seeking showdown in Parliament, SYRIZA tables censure motion over surveillance report
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe report. The opposition leader’s actions were widely expected to lead up to a grand gesture..., the government spokesman dismissed Rammos’s approaches ascribing them to political motives, a charge... by Mitsotakis’s actions and was acting in an authoritarian manner. The chief government spokesman had already
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ND views SYRIZA's Parliament walkout as a pre-election gift
PoliticsGreek Politicselections. The decision was taken as a way of displaying the opposition party’s contempt for the way Prime... that the move will not pay off for SYRIZA because it shows a disregard for the democratic process on Tsipras’s... leader is hoping to attract in this year’s elections, and who could tip the balance in terms of whether
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Newsletter 372 - 03/03/2023
PoliticsTrain tragedy casts long shadow over election build-upThis week’s deadly train accident... of neglect and mismanagement at the former state railway company TRAINOSE, which was sold to Italy’s... the SYRIZA-led government as part of the privatisation programme agreed with Greece’s lenders
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New Democracy pins hopes on minimum wage hike to reverse poll losses
PoliticsGreek Politicspct set by the government’s own advisory bodies including the Bank of Greece and the Centre... for the start of the tourist season. Poll losses The accident at Tempe upset New Democracy’s calculations... party’s ratings. Two more polls released on Thursday added to the government’s woes by confirming
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Leaders hit campaign trail as ratings remain finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a bid to highlight the government’s tough stance on the migration issue, which it believes is a vote winner with much of the party’s base and beyond. In comments on Thursday, Mitsotakis pledged that his... support following the Tempe train crash appears to be tailing off. In terms of voting intentions, ND’s
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