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Bar on extreme right party triggers developments across political spectrum
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s Supreme Court has blocked the far-right Spartiates party from running in June’s European..., the ultranationalist party which has seen its support rise into double digits in recent months. On Wednesday... is expected to send ripples across the political scene in Greece and has already set off a war of words
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Mitsotakis accused of flippancy over handling of diplomatic relations with neighbours
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the 2025 national elections has been described as a deliberate provocation by Greece’s opposition parties... the EU. While Mitsotakis has been arguing that relations with Albania, including the treatment... and their affiliates from politics. The decision has been challenged by the prosecutor of the appeals court
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Parties strive to meet vote targets as interest in European elections wanes
PoliticsGreek Politicsof dissatisfaction, apathy and indecision. Interest in the upcoming EP elections has waned as campaigning... who say they are very interested in the outcome has fallen to 57 pct from 58 pct in April while..., at a rate of around 70 pct, with small losses on the right to Greek Solution and Niki. SYRIZA has
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Newsletter 427 - 14/06/2024
in the European Parliament elections has triggered a series of developments in Greek politics, which... earlier opinion polls has bought the new SYRIZA leader some time. However, he faces an uneasy three... party that he has during the recent rally in the opinion polls. Social democrats PASOK also failed
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Dissent grows within SYRIZA as polls indicated appetite for joined-up centre left
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor comfort, while presenting ruling New Democracy with a fragmented opposition. The outcome has kicked off... percent followed by Doukas with 17.2 percent. No contest has yet been declared and no challenger has formally put themselves forward, however Androulakis has indicated he will go along
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsis expected to use the meeting to initiate a reset in line with what he has outlined as the party’s core... that ND under Mitsotakis has drifted too far to the centre with the appointment of centre-left politicians.... SYRIZA upheaval At SYRIZA, leader Stefanos Kasselakis has responded to his internal critics by going
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ND throws weight behind pursuit of whistleblowers, prompting SYRIZA backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical figures. Political clash There has been a set pattern to the political element of the Novartis affair: SYRIZA has been intent on implicating former New Democracy and PASOK ministers in the affair, while ND has wanted to prove that its left-wing opponents organised a conspiracy aimed
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Opposition striving to ensure surveillance scandal remains live issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government, which has accused the opposition parties of not respecting the judiciary’s independence... to the ruling on the spyware scandal, the opposition has also zoomed in on Health Minister Adonis... not take any legal action against those who sought to bug him. Georgiadis has brushed off the issue
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Kasselakis ousting confirmed as SYRIZA slips in polls, which also carry warnings for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsopinion poll suggested there has been a significant drop in support for the leftist party. SYRIZA’s... – backing for SYRIZA has dropped to 7 pct, from 11.1 pct in June. This places SYRIZA fifth, behind... point of view is that the latest percentage is higher than New Democracy’s share, which has fallen to 41
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Diffuse support fuels speculation about change to electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsto secure enough support in the next general elections to form a government on its own. This has fuelled... have been damaged by the fragmentation of support, which has seen a number of fringe parties build... to be awarded bonus seats. New Democracy has already changed the electoral law once, switching from
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