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Government sets stage for TIF as PASOK and ELAS prepare own challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsand present a long‑term plan for the country. For PASOK and the newly formed ELAS, it is an opportunity... for this trend, including fatigue after seven years of ND rule, the cost‑of‑living crisis, anger over... Androulakis, and ELAS, whose rapid rise has reshaped the opposition landscape. PASOK officials say
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Tsipras talks up ELAS momentum as ND pleads with former leader to stand down
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras is intensifying his campaign to position the newly formed ELAS as a decisive force... might call early elections to halt ELAS’s rise, insisting that the New Democracy leader is in for a tough contest. Tsipras argued that ELAS was founded to fill a vacuum created by the failure
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Tsipras sets out ELAS economic programme as government and PASOK launch criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicseconomic programme of the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), the first full policy platform the party has...-election messaging. The package, costed by ELAS at around 7.4 bln euros over four years, centres on wage... centrepiece of the ELAS pitch is a National Convergence Fund, envisaged with 12 bln euros in primary
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Parties shift into early campaign mode as ND mobilises and ELAS builds machine
PoliticsGreek Politicsformation, the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), is moving quickly to build its internal structures. The result... - in an effort to stabilise the ground and discourage defections. Next on the itinerary is rural... territory, ELAS is building its organisation at pace. The party will announce the members of its 301
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Government scrapes together more fuel price measures as ELAS intensifies pressure
PoliticsGreek Politics. Analysts and government insiders attribute the lack of polling movement to voter fatigue after more... destabilising development. ELAS proposals Against this backdrop, ELAS is intensifying its campaign.... ELAS has set out a four‑point intervention plan: a profit‑margin cap, a windfall tax on refinery excess
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ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage
PoliticsGreek Politics, 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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New Democracy sees silver lining in polls as ELAS consolidates second place
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe reverberations from the launch of ex-PM Alexis Tsipras’s new party ELAS continue to be felt... that ELAS (Greek Left Alliance) has established itself as a force to be reckoned with, gaining ground... of Flash.gr shows ND in the lead with 24 pct of voting intentions (up from 23.5 pct), however ELAS
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New Democracy and PASOK challenged by arrival of new parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a political environment marked by fatigue and distrust. Perhaps the most striking finding...The emergence of two new parties - Alexis Tsipras’s ELAS and Maria Karystianou’s Elpida - have... and pushing PASOK into a defensive posture. A new poll, conducted on the back of last week’s ELAS launch
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Tsipras re‑enters political arena as battle for centre‑left heats up
PoliticsGreek Politics, the New Left Alliance (ELAS) in a packed Thisseio Square in central Athens. The event.... With the unveiling of ELAS, Tsipras has set in motion a contest for dominance in the centre‑left space... and a multidimensional foreign policy. Tsipras’s presented ELAS as a broad progressive realignment uniting
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Tsipras aim to redraw political map as ND drafts plan to contain ELAS
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLeft Alliance (ELAS), while the government has shifted decisively from dismissive commentary... that ELAS is not a continuation of SYRIZA. The “historic cycle” of his former party, he says, has closed. ELAS is presented as a new project with the same values but a different political method, new
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