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Samaras and Venizelos rule out elections but can't be sure they won't happen
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalitions has decided against calling snap elections in the wake of Golden Dawn arrests... elections now. Venizelos went a stepped further and tried to double guess the 12 Golden Dawn MPs... they represent. This would require around half of the Greek electorate to go to the polls as Golden Dawn
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Polls give New Democracy wafer-thin lead over SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA and had Golden Dawn as Greece’s third biggest party, reaffirming the figures that have... percent, against SYRIZA’s 20.5. Golden Dawn was at 7.8 percent, still surprisingly high but lower... vs 21.1 percent. Golden Dawn remained the third most popular with 6.9 percent. The same polling
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Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe outlawing of Golden Dawn. Secondly, Bodganos was only recently given a “yellow card” by New Democracy... themselves with Golden Dawn, suggesting that the foreign minister felt his colleague...,” concluded Dendias, who has in the past earned plaudits for confronting Golden Dawn MPs head
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Samaras ratchets up tension in clash with SYRIZA over violence
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTension has seeped through Greek politics in the wake of the Golden Dawn arrests but Prime Minister... the violence committed by Golden Dawn and the firebombing of Marfin Bank in Athens in 2010, which left... eavesdropping on Golden Dawn MPs. The leftists have also opposed draft legislation that would block state
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Samaras proposes free wi-fi as crisis antidote for young Greeks
PoliticsGreek Politics. The discussion focussed mainly on Friday’s murder of two Golden Dawn members and the troika’s... took place over a month after rapper Pavlos Fyssas was killed by a Golden Dawn member, Samaras... criticising the Greeks who had voted for neofascist Golden Dawn. “There are no Nazi roots in Greece
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Polls turn in SYRIZA’s favour but also show that doubts persists
PoliticsGreek Politicsto edge ahead. Metron Analysis poll for Ethnos: SYRIZA 20.5%, New Democracy 19.7, Golden Dawn 6.9... Alco poll for Proto Thema: SYRIZA 22.2%, New Democracy 21.6, Golden Dawn 7.7, PASOK 4.7, KKE 4.6, Ind... for @EFSYNTAKTON: SYRIZA 31.5, New Democracy 28, Golden Dawn 10, PASOK 6.5, KKE 6.5, Ind Greeks 4.5
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout whether To Potami could in the future be a potential coalition partner. 4. Golden Dawn still there Despite the coalition’s hopes, Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn showed in the first round of local... lawmaker and spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris grabbed a little above 16 percent. Golden Dawn performed
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Newsletter 63 - 19/02/2016
of interest are due by March 11. Farmers, refugees dominate agenda Extremist Golden Dawn seeks to exploit... to the crisis that emerged this week was the verbal attack from Golden Dawn MPs on Defence Minister Panos... and it is likely that we will see more direct action like this from Golden Dawn in the coming weeks. Until now
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New nationalist party in the making
PoliticsGreek Politicshim in conversation with Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris. While Samaras was in charge... in February, New Democracy’s official response was to suggest that he should just join Golden Dawn... suggests that its aim will be to mop up votes from Golden Dawn’s non-hardcore support and from
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Coalition to focus on constitutional reform after electoral law, as TV tender progresses
PoliticsGreek Politicson the new electoral law was extinguished on Tuesday when Golden Dawn said it would not take part... the proportional representation system proposed by the government would appear to favour Golden Dawn and other smaller parties as they would gain more seats in Parliament. Had Golden Dawn supported the bill
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