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  1. Flashpoints fuel contest for centrist voters
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a strong appeal among centrists, and that PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis has overtaken SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras. Several issues not related to the regular political.... SYRIZA has long struggled to shed the image it has of being equivocal about the use of politically

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  2. Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
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    greeted the announcement of new support measures has lent support to those in the party who argued... Mitsotakis to claim that he has stuck by his pledge to see out a whole term. Surveillance While... leadership. SYRIZA has placed particular emphasis on the revelations around General Floros because

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  3. PM prepares to set out policy agenda, SYRIZA gears up for leadership vote
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    leader. Over the past few days, the government has dampened expectations about what Mitsotakis might... to vulnerable households, although the PM did explain in a Facebook post that although Greece has one... subsidies will remain for vulnerable households. The government has not ruled out another “inflation cheque

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  4. New Himare elections pose fresh challenge for Greek-Albanian relations
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    the first moment by the Greek government, has claimed that his conviction was politically motivated. The Albanian government has strongly rejected these claims, citing the judiciary’s independence. This case has provoked a diplomatic spat between Athens and Tirana with Greece continuously threatening

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  5. Aided by opposition parties, PM faces low risk over bland choice of president
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Although Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under attack from most opposition parties... support for the nominee, who has served as a New Democracy MP since 2000. Spartiates only have five MPs... from within his own party’s ranks, Mitsotakis has overturned the trend that has been in place

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  6. Stomach for the fight
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    . However, rarely has there been a reshuffle that has been met with such a sense of deflation.... Even the government spokesperson, Sofia Voultepsi, has a history of controversy and confrontation... adjustment program. Samaras has continued the process of cosying up to this extreme of the Greek political

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  7. Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    existing channels. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has already attracted negative comments... upholding the appeals. New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis has also intervened in the issue, though... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt

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  8. Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017

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    at home and dispel some of the uncertainty that has proved damaging for the Greek economy over... the personal nature of the view expressed by Skourletis and insisted, given the coalition has 153 out of 300 MPs, that it does not need the votes of other parties. There has been a discussion

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  9. Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is possible in the coming months. The resumption of talks between the two countries on this subject has...” in its name and the position that the conservative party will take on the issue. Mitsotakis has so far... the next elections and has heaped pressure on Mitsotakis not to alienate the conservative party’s

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  10. Kammenos prepares to quit coalition amid ANEL unrest, issues to settle with PM
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ANEL, has called a meeting of the party’s parliamentary group and executive committee on Wednesday... of the political divorce. Kammenos has been insisting for weeks now that he will quit the government... has been engaged in a public battle over the last few weeks. The ANEL chief seemed irked by the fact

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