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Tsipras on alert for snap elections, but Mitsotakis looks set to stay course
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has suggested that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis could call snap elections early next year, several months before the government’s four-year term expires, but the chances of such a move appear slim for the time being. Tsipras suggested this week that Mitsotakis
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ND paves way to spring elections with relief measures amid SYRIZA objections
PoliticsGreek Politicspart of the new year suggests that the conservatives are unlikely to call snap elections in February
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Opposition clashes with govt over high energy prices, cost-of-living measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it had taken from ordinary citizens” and repeated his party’s call for the re-nationalisation
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PM signals April elections as MP at centre of latest sleaze scandal resigns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAt the new year’s first cabinet meeting, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave the strongest signal yet that he does not plan to call elections before April. The resignation of a New Democracy MP who was revealed to have profited from public sector contracts adds to the shadows cast over the governing party
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Newsletter 365 - 13/01/2023
PoliticsRoad to elections riddled with potholesThe year began with fresh speculation about when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is likely to call national elections, but there appears little chance of his New Democracy party having a clear run to the ballot box as the government continues
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ND turns tables on SYRIZA over sleaze, tweaks stance on ex-king's funeral
PoliticsGreek Politics. The claims prompted government spokesman Yiannis Economou to call on SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras
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Seeking showdown in Parliament, SYRIZA tables censure motion over surveillance report
PoliticsGreek Politicsafternoon with a roll-call vote. Data harvesting charge In a separate development, SYRIZA has called
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Opposition vents over police corruption allegations
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the gangs. Unsurprisingly, the reports prompted the opposition parties to call on Theodorikakos
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Greece offers Turkey earthquake support, recalling 1999 thaw in relations
PoliticsForeign PolicySakellaropoulou talked to her Turkish counterpart, while PM Mitsotakis also held a telephone call
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Machinations intensify as announcement of election date approaches
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek media appears convinced that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to call elections for April 9 as a number of factors point to the countdown to polling day already having started. The government’s focus on the handouts aimed at combatting the cost-of-living crisis is one
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