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Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBuoyed by another opinion poll showing that his party is starting to pick up support ahead of the May 21 elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to set out his policy agenda on Wednesday... of undecided voters according to the way they are currently leaning, as set out in the latest survey
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Tsipras pitches SYRIZA election manifesto as basis for progressive coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsset out by the main opposition party consisted of specific actions, as well as bigger legislative initiatives which Tsipras said was designed to boost the economy, strengthen social cohesion and set
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ND moves to squeeze votes out of fringe parties, aided by infighting
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe conclusive majority of seats that the party has set as its target for the June 25 elections. The poll... in Thrace. Plefsi implosion Even as Plefsi Eleftherias (Course for Freedom) looks set to enter Parliament
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Mitsotakis enters last week of campaign with confidence, high ratings
PoliticsGreek Politicshappen, Tsipras’s leadership of the party could be set to come to an end. He has shown no desire... list. Kasidiaris had set up his own far-right party, Ellines, but was barred from taking part
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Newsletter 388 - 07/07/2023
, which will contain the measures that Mitsotakis will set out on Thursday, and the third relates to the labour market and social insurance. Mitsotakis is hoping that these three bills will set
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Government launches new round of legislation with diaspora vote bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving set out his government’s policy goals for the next four years, and sailed through Saturday’s confidence vote, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus is on the new administration’s first... government’s policy agenda, during which Mitsotakis set the ideological tone for his second term, but also
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Government presses ahead with legislative work by delivering on some economic pledges
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Mitsotakis set out on the campaign trail. These include the 150-euro Youth Pass stipend for Greeks turning... to remove any barriers to Greeks abroad voting in national elections from where they live, looks set
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Mitsotakis faces down critics over handling of forest fires
PoliticsGreek Politicseasing the requirement for Greeks voting from abroad looks set to pass with more than the required..., looks set to pass with 208 votes out of 300. Aside from the substance of the bill, the debate gave some
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament was set to vote on the government’s economic bill on Wednesday in the shadow of the ongoing forest fires, which also claimed their first lives this summer. MPs were due to cast... measures that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out on the campaign trail. These include the 150-euro
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SYRIZA leadership contest off to slow start, as ND rushes to contain political damage from fires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe contest to succeed Alexis Tsipras at the helm of SYRIZA looks set to gather momentum with the launch of a campaign aimed to generate engagement in view of the September leadership elections... have been slow to set out their stalls, aware that their election will have to run in tandem
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