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Growing challenges await PM following summer break
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Athens. Although Kasidiaris has no hope of winning, this will be an attempt to show that he... reform of the public administration, which has displayed many of its chronic weaknesses over..., the fringe far-right party that elected 12 MPs this summer. Building on that success, he has decided
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ND keeps eye on upcoming local elections amid ongoing complaints about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicssector. In the meantime, though, the PM also has one eye on the local elections coming up on October... forest fire, which has burned more than 800 square kilometres, making it the largest wildfire recorded... Efi Achtsioglou has taken an unexpected turn after US-based businessman Stefanos Kasselakis announced
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Government facing up to threat from rise of far right parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe European Union. He went on to point out that Latinopoulou has aligned herself with Europe’s far..., New Democracy has gradually turned its focus towards the parties to its right, including... dealing with the inflow of migrants falling from 130 to 33. He also noted that Greece has been
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OPEKEPE scandal dogs PM as speculation about next elections intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicslaundering agency has built cases against two farmers from Thessaly, central Greece, who allegedly received... has handled the scandal, including a controversial stance during the votes in Parliament last week... normality” that has been built up in Greece since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974. “What
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PM insists on 3 pct election threshold, unveils plans to entice diaspora voters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appears insistent that he has no plans to change the 3 pct... of fringe parties. However, this does not appear to be under consideration. The New Democracy leader has.... The other variable is the date of the elections. Mitsotakis has insisted that he will see out his second
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Poll upends opposition landscape and triggers fresh unrest in PASOK
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Tempe justice campaigner Maria Karystianou. The latest MRB poll has caused tremors not because New Democracy’s lead has disappeared — it still sits first on 22.3 pct in terms of voting intention..., has climbed into second place on 10.1 pct, overtaking a fragmented field in which PASOK
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Coalition's proposal for PR electoral system unlikely to clinch supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politics) of the bonus for the election winner and, to a lesser extent the reduction in the voting age, has... move” and said the socialists would not back it. PASOK has found itself in a difficult position over... (9 MPs) has said it will back the proposal on the table, while the intentions of Golden Dawn (18 MPs
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PM gets no change out of opposition leaders on US trip, electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the winning party. The government has not publicly revealed its proposal yet, but Mitsotakis has indicated... 20 years” vis a vis Greece. There has been much debate among politicians and the media this week... the leftists were in power. However, since losing the national elections last summer, SYRIZA has been
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Turkish truculence added to factors being considered as PM weighs up snap polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe ratcheting up of tension between Greece and Turkey has given the ongoing speculation about... immediate rival, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras. It has also been suggested by commentators... to be appointed for at least a period of three weeks, which is the minimum time that has to elapse
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PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts
PoliticsGreek Politics, among other fiscal policies. Although a bumper tourism season has helped augment public coffers... if the government is undermined and replaced as a result of the spying affair. This is a line that has been used... to the New York Times. Since Mitsotakis has accepted that the National Intelligence Service (EYP) spied
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