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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith opinion polls failing to predict a clear-cut result in May’s elections, attention has turned... was driven partly by widespread scepticism regarding ND’s motives, with critics seeing... the Court’s decision. Kanellopoulos has objected strongly to his characterisation as a “straw man”, while
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Mitsotakis asks voters for four more years to deliver high-wage, low-tax programme
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be debated by the parties of the opposition. Mitsotakis gave a slick presentation of his party’s... in his first four years in government to make Greece a “truly European state”. New Democracy’s... civil servants, and an overhaul of Greece’s notoriously slow justice system to bring the time for court
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Leaders gear up for debate as ND maintains opinion poll lead
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe leaders of Greece’s parliamentary parties are preparing for the only televised debate... repeatedly rejected such requests, leading to Wednesday night’s debate being the only time the party leaders... to highlight his government’s achievements, while also attempting to turn the screw on the opposition
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Mitsotakis makes direct play for PASOK voters as SYRIZA questions opinion polls
PoliticsGreek Politics. Emboldened by his party’s resurgence in recent opinion polls, Mitsotakis has taken to addressing potential... Androulakis’s PASOK”, accusing the socialist leader of drifting too close to SYRIZA. Speaking at a rally at Iraklio, on Androulakis’s home turf of Crete, the ND leader appealed to PASOK supporters to align
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Resounding win for Mitsotakis, who has majority comfortably in reach
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSunday’s elections brought a resounding victory for New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while... in the final stretch before the May 21 vote. SYRIZA’s score was more than 10 points down on its result... in this election campaign and the previous four years, SYRIZA’s result could also be attributed
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Mitsotakis bids to hold on to voters with loose allegiance to ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament. Mitsotakis laid the blame for this on SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras for the adoption of the proportional representation system in the last elections and PASOK’s Nikos Androulakis for seeming... of the centre-right party’s large margin of victory, at more than 20 points over SYRIZA
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Athens assesses new Turkish government, potential impact on imminent drive for fresh talks
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is assessing Turkey’s new cabinet named last Saturday by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he extended his two-decade rule following victory in last month’s elections. The new government... will be conditioned by the normalisation of Turkey’s relations with Greece. This means the makeup
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Mitsotakis seeks to banish health system concerns with reform pledge, candidate removal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has stated that reforming Greece’s health service will be one of his main goals... has argued that it was not possible to make substantial changes during ND’s first term in office... police. New Democracy became embroiled in further controversy on Thursday when one of the party’s MPs
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Newsletter 385 - 16/06/2023
and platform that being in Parliament would provide. A GPO poll carried out for Saturday’s edition of Ta... Solution’s backing and 8.3 pct from Niki. Concerns among the conservatives that the wide margin... TV gives the conservatives 39.9 percent versus SYRIZA’s 18.2 percent, widening the gap between first
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Mitsotakis enters last week of campaign with confidence, high ratings
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the social impact of its policies. In reality, Tsipras’s main concern is to at least hold on to the 20 pct... happen, Tsipras’s leadership of the party could be set to come to an end. He has shown no desire.... Opinion polls A Metron Analysis poll for Sunday’s To Vima suggests that New Democracy is on course
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