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Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015
will this damage SYRIZA? Will coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) make it into Parliament? Will SYRIZA and ANEL have enough seats to continue their coalition? Will PASOK pass the 3 percent threshold... the last few weeks. The polls also raise doubts about whether ANEL would enter Parliament
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Tsipras wins confidence vote, has to repeat trick in ballot on name deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe split with his former coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL... Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL) and Spyros Danellis (ex-To Potami). The highlight of the debate was probably
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Stage set for censure motion as Parliament votes to review charges against deputy minister
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor interfering with the scene of the crash. The motion was carried with 277 votes in favour, 12 against... and have a three-day debate on the issue before holding a confidence vote, which the government
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Soldiers' return from Turkey provides Tsipras with timely boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Greece as Turkey announced the release of the two Greek soldiers it had been holding since March... in Mati last month, the soldiers release was a huge relief for the coalition. The government had... the programme have been abandoned because of the death toll from the Mati fire, but Tsipras is still
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ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEvia on Wednesday after visiting the fire brigade’s control centre in Athens and holding talks..., including last summer’s devastating fire in Mati, near Athens. Apart from returning from his holidays... predecessor paid for the deaths in Mati and elsewhere. The government was also quick to stress
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Newsletter 372 - 03/03/2023
. It will not be lost on the main opposition party, SYRIZA, that it paid a heavy price for the fire in Mati... the impression that their shortcomings contributed to such a high death toll at Mati..., mostly attributed to stable employment that is holding firm at around 4.15 million and continued
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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek Politics’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use... Minister Panos Kammenos. The friction between SYRIZA and ANEL is visible, particularly with the verbal... been suggestions from some ANEL deputies that the party might withdraw from the coalition
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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicslongevity after suggesting that he would pull his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out of the government... (at least 180 out of 300 MPs) in Parliament. The ANEL leader suggested that he would trigger national... to be that the vote in Greek Parliament will be the trigger for SYRIZA and ANEL to pave the way for a managed
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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Tsipras seeks to capitalise on bailout exit, build platform for elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsand social security contributions as evidence that SYRIZA and ANEL are over-selling the end of the MoU..., who also leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), will not be moved from... Minister after Nikos Toskas resigned in the wake of the disastrous wildfire in Mati last month
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