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Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections
AgoraMany people asking whether Greece can afford to hold snap elections in the autumn. Perhaps, though... Democracy are essentially under caretaker leadership. Of course, snap elections may not necessarily change... the option of snap polls this autumn. In effect, he has a small window of opportunity to capitalise
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Tsipras bet on recovery a long shot but offers better odds than snap polls
Agoradevelopments (even snap elections) this could trigger. Although Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made.... The mantra of snap elections being the only way out of the country’s problems that emanates from... of reading Tsipras’s actual intentions is another reason that the snap elections scenario
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What kind of poll win does SYRIZA need to eye snap elections?
PoliticsGreek Politicsfeel they have a legitimate right to push for snap national elections after the European vote... that it has a case for snap polls if it is not able to improve on the 26.9 percent of the vote... this, then conditions will be ripe for the opposition party to call for snap elections. SYRIZA
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Leaders draw battle lines as Greece heads to snap polls on Jan 25
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece is heading to snap elections on January 25 after Parliament failed to elect a president... to ask for Parliament to be dissolved on Tuesday and for the snap polls to held on January 25... a SYRIZA victory in snap polls. Tsipras, in contrast, was upbeat in his comments, insisting that a SYRIZA
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Calls for snap polls, parliamentary probes set tone for polarised politics
PoliticsGreek Politicschallenging him to hold snap polls (“Since you can’t govern, let the people decide. I dare you to go... that it might not last much longer. Having the spectre of snap elections hovering over the coalition... Democracy boost its ratings and damage SYRIZA’s further. Bringing up the possibility of snap polls
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Tsipras dismisses snap polls and new measures as review deal hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek Politics. Tsipras ruled out the possibility of snap elections, arguing that there would be no point to them... are demanding.” Nevertheless, his confidence about not needing to call snap elections is based..., is for Tsipras to call snap elections in the hope that SYRIZA will be buoyed enough by its refusal to succumb
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Amid coalition bickering, Skopje vote lights up path to snap elections in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicson the Macedonia name deal and the announcement of snap elections by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... or April, allowing Tsipras to hold a snap national ballot in May along with, or just before, local... to snap elections in Greece in May, one of Tsipras’s biggest challenges in the meantime
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Tsipras tempted to ditch snap elections option and hold on until October
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than snap election in May at the same time or before the European Parliament ballot... from calling snap general elections in May, SYRIZA will have to step up its campaign for the EP... to abandon his reported intention of waiting until October and to call snap elections during
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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap elections on Sunday after SYRIZA suffered a heavy defeat... to the Greek people about who should govern the country. The scenario of snap elections had been..., the size of the defeat meant that this would not be possible politically. He will call snap elections
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Snap election scenarios circulate as ND's pandemic response fuels surge in polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsmedia about the possibility of a snap election in the summer or early autumn. Record-high approval... of events a scenario for snap elections, less than one year into ND’s term in government. Such a scenario... that “there is no thought of elections”. Commenting on the prospect of snap elections in an interview
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