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  1. ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government... for their own version of the expat vote. The initiative is staunchly opposed by Communist Party KKE.... On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Parliament lifting restrictions on Greeks voting

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  2. Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
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    permitted in person, so in order to vote an expat would have to return to their home voting district... no residence conditions in connection to voting rights, while others require expat voters to have lived.... The bargain The issue of the expat vote appears to have climbed up the political agenda as the result

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  3. Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
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    well that this was standard practice for ensuring policy commitments would be met. It was obvious... the negotiations with the lenders and by selecting Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the interior minister during 2004-2009... seemed like the end of the MoU era. In the meantime, SYRIZA had parted ways with the radical side

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  4. Loosening of restrictions on expat vote fails to secure Parliament's approval

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    and diaspora Greeks alike, tabled the legislation after SYRIZA’s spokeswoman on expat affairs made

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  5. Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government

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    of separate investigations by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country’s Data Protection Authority, while several expat Greeks have filed separate lawsuits against the Greek state...-Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming EP elections and the resignation of a senior Interior

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  6. Tsipras faces challenge in turning promise of China trip into reality
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    from the range of officials and executives that Tsipras met during his five-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai. Apart from President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, the Greek leader also met... to Parliament as a draft law. In the wake of the meeting, COSCO chairman Xu Lirong announced

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  7. ND in danger of being blown off course by farming subsidy scandal

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    to plead the case of a local olive farmer who was in danger of missing out on a legitimate subsidy

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  8. New Omicron measures met with exasperation by business and scepticism from opposition
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    Georgiadis argued that any kind of lockdown over the holidays would not be met with compliance. Reaction Even the limited restrictions announced on Monday have been met with protestations from

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  9. Coalition sees key targets met in debt deal but opposition has holes to pick

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    that the coalition met one of its key targets, which has not always been the case during its negotiations

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  10. PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come

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    be reallocated to represent expat voters. Evros retraction German magazine Der Spiegel’s decision... across electoral districts. Interior Minister Makis Voridis stated recently that the government intended

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