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  1. ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage

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    , as mounting discontent over the OPEKEPE scandal and the government’s handling of rural affairs... focus back on law and order in a bid to win back disaffected conservative voters. Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras is set to meet New Democracy deputies from rural constituencies today

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  2. New Democracy losing grip on regions as farmers’ protests highlight rural frustration
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    numbers of voters in rural areas. Footage of the visit show the PM’s convoy being diverted along farm... in rural areas, where anger is boiling over of the misappropriation of farm subsidies, combined... the mood, which has grown increasingly restive as rural voters complained of being condemned

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  3. New polls suggest picking party veteran for president helps PM in goal of mobilising ND base
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    Two new opinion polls published on Monday indicate that there was a lukewarm reaction among Greek voters to the news that New Democracy veteran Kostas Tasoulas is Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s... and sticking, instead, with a party veteran. This is seen as part of a strategy to rally the party base

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  4. Unhappy voters struggle to find alternatives as PM faces fresh attack from veteran conservatives
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    in appearances and becoming a “cheerleader” at the expense of the national interest. The veteran right..., Mitstotakis has to contend with grumblings from veterans of his own party. In what has become a recurring

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  5. Mitsotakis dismisses poll speculation, promises swift housing relief and rural support
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    rural unrest and the government’s handling of agricultural subsidies. Mitsotakis reiterated his

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  6. First challenges for tourism plan, as public relaxes approach to virus
    Athens Airport metro

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    -risk by the EU’s Aviation Safety Agency EASA, and would be under constant review. Theoharis stressed... and safety criteria”, adding, “the EASA list is our guide”. Currently, all arriving international... high-risk by EASA, and allows its citizens to holiday abroad. The US, along with large parts of Italy

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  7. Newsletter 480 - 17/10/2025

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    in Livadia during a visit by the rural affairs minister. Farmers’ groups are threatening a prolonged... points to a broader crisis of confidence, two veteran politicians issued stark warnings on Wednesday about the erosion of democratic trust. Sceptical veterans Former PM Kostas Karamanlis, speaking

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  8. New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
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    New Democracy will have a new leader by Sunday night, with veteran Evangelos Meimarakis seen as the favourite to edge out former administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the ballot... in northern Greece and rural areas. The two main battlegrounds for Sunday’s ballot will be Attica

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  9. Newsletter 448 - 24/01/2025

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    published in the wake of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis picking New Democracy veteran Kostas... in four people in urban areas and one in three in rural areas live at risk of poverty and social exclusion

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  10. OPEKEPE hearings ruffle feathers in New Democracy as party waits for Samaras’s next move

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    to the inquiry, in which he claims that he was pressured into resigning by the then rural development... in August, many expected the veteran politician to retire, however his return with a statement

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