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SYRIZA rebels launch new group, promising more discomfort for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsreturning to the drachma. He pledged to make public the new party’s economic plans in the coming days. Lafazanis’s attack on the government, which he accused of turning its back on SYRIZA’s pledges and selling out to Greece’s lenders, suggests that the campaign will be an uncomfortable one for Tsipras
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Defections and alliances as parties set out on campaign trail
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the September 20 elections. A number of members of SYRIZA’s youth wing announced their resignation.... In both cases, the departees signaled disappointment with SYRIZA’s decision to implement the third bailout... SYRIZA’s regional organisations in the last couple of weeks as these are the foot soldiers that would
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SYRIZA and New Democracy neck-and-neck as post-election scenarios become clearer
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the task. Nevertheless, the numbers indicated that Meimarakis’s homely style has revived New Democracy’s fortunes. The latest poll readings are expected to push SYRIZA onto the front foot after a period of introspection caused by its concessions to Greece’s lenders and the split within the party, which
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Tsipras and Meimarakis face off, bristle at idea of working together
PoliticsGreek Politicsto their opponent. Meimarakis’s strength was in highlighting Tsipras’s failure and unreliability during his time... played a key role in feeding Greece’s chronic problems. Both leaders, though, were weak when it came to questions about how they could move Greece forward. Both men’s answers focussed greatly
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Tsipras bid to focus campaign on corruption issue runs into trouble
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras’s plans to sway voters by making the fight against corruption..., Flambouraris also insisted that he transferred his stake in the company, handed in his engineer’s... that Tsipras’s cousin was given a senior position at the Foreign Ministry and the partner of SYRIZA’s
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Tsipras sets target of trouble-free bailout review so debt relief talks can begin
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s aim to adopt the measures in the bailout and lead Greece out of the crisis by 2019, when the coalition’s four-year term ends. The premier said that it is vital the government clears the first... with Greece’s lenders. “You must hurry,” said the SYRIZA leader. It should be pointed out
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Tsipras seeks alternatives to bailout measures as ND race begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsto hear the prime minister set out his government’s policy programme. Tsipras is expected to repeat his... paperwork, including the signatures of 50 members of the party’s political committee, a few minutes... candidates, and on Saturday New Democracy’s electoral committee decided to accept Georgiadis’s nomination
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New Democracy decides on date for leadership vote, candidates get on the road
PoliticsGreek Politicsproposed mid-November. According to reports, the party’s electoral committee decided to extend... Tzitzikostas have begun their public campaigns. Mitsotakis, whose support lies in the party’s centrist...-Cypriots killed in the island’s conflicts. This appeared to be an attempt to strengthen his credentials
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Tsipras strengthens grip on SYRIZA, sees more 'open' party
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the same direction. Tsipras took part in the first meeting of the party’s central committee over... “regardless of whether they have voted for PASOK or New Democracy in the past.” The SYRIZA leader’s message... committee meeting went in his favour. Tsipras’s choice for party secretary, Panagiotis Rigas was elected
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Leadership race brings New Democracy factionalism to the surface
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s leadership race appears to have triggered a descent into disarray... it was decided last month that there would be a leadership election following the party’s poor election... Meimarakis interrupted a meeting of New Democracy’s electoral committee on Tuesday to withdraw his
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