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Lethal firebomb attack on homes of ND officials cuts through pre-election season
PoliticsGreek Politicshave no place whatsoever in a democracy”. The sentiment was echoed by ELAS leader Alexis Tsipras.... Opposition parties, particularly ELAS and SYRIZA, appear aware of this framing and have been moving... the imputed collective responsibility. ELAS responded directly, accusing Kyranakis of "choosing
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Tsipras breaks August quiet, prompting ND and PASOK to intensify attacks
PoliticsGreek Politicsrhetoric reflects ELAS’s broader strategy: a more measured, pragmatic tone aimed at centrist... by an announcement that ELAS will present its economic programme on September 2 in Thessaloniki - a deliberate move... had copied PASOK’s proposals on PPC, inflation and housing, and mocked his claim that ELAS
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Newsletter 470 - 11/07/2025
PoliticsMigration surges to forefront of political agendaWith no major breakthroughs in the ongoing farming subsidy scandal, Greece’s political spotlight shifted sharply to migration this week—spurred by a diplomatic debacle in Libya. On Tuesday, a high-level EU delegation, including Greece’s newly
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Left poised for watershed moment as parties adjust to new opposition landscape
PoliticsGreek Politicssurvey confirms a pattern now visible across multiple pollsters. ELAS (Greek Left Alliance), the party..., the poll's qualitative data suggest ELAS is drawing voters primarily from the centre-left space, from... the latest developments, being squeezed from the left by ELAS and from the right by the constitutional
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Officials downplay significance of Trump F-35 signal to Turkey amid fears of softer US sanctions
PoliticsGreek Politics, while ex-PM Alexis Tsipras’s new party ELAS (Greek Left Alliance) has consolidated in second place, ahead of a declining PASOK. With ELAS shaping up as the main opposition, some of the findings test... intention, giving the conservatives a double-digit lead over ELAS. The gap has narrowed, however
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PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play
PoliticsGreek Politicswith his new party ELAS. The choice of Leros was deliberate, allowing the prime minister to set... rhetorical contrast with a "2015 Tsipras" added strategic urgency now that ELAS, rather than SYRIZA, has... an ELAS event in Athens, attended by more than 500 local government figures, to present the "Aristotle
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Newsletter 517 - 11/09/2026
turbulence, and voters should resist the temptation to cast protest ballots. ELAS offer Tsipras, by contrast, used his Thessaloniki appearances this week and last week to present ELAS’s first full... for three years before resuming dividends. The centrepiece of the ELAS programme is a National
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PM launches tech “investment marathon” in US as fuel prices dominate domestic agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicslaunching a renewed offensive at the helm of second-polling ELAS. After two days in San Francisco... of government and policy direction, positioning ELAS as the only force with the experience and "plan for the day after" needed to unseat the prime minister. Tsipras said ELAS would "pursue and exhaust every
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Lack of perceived alternatives strengthens ND as challenger parties lose shine
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE farm payments scandal, which concluded officially on Tuesday, finding no evidence to refer two former rural development ministers for further scrutiny. The latest poll... on the part of two former rural development ministers. This is the second parliamentary vote to exonerate
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsof an organisation treated as a political patronage mechanism in rural constituencies. The political management... the reporting, with Deputy Rural Development Minister Makarios Lazaridis publicly disputing aspects... finding that Intellexa operated exclusively in the field of data extraction through surveillance
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