MacroPolis

ND on cusp of brokering deal over diaspora vote as Novartis battle heats up

Although MPs have started to debate the 2020 draft budget, which encapsulates the government’s economic policy going forward, the focus of Greek politics is currently on an apparent rare moment of compromise between the parties over allowing Greeks living abroad to vote in the national elections from their country of residence.

Mitsotakis promotes constructive role as talks over electoral process continue

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has highlighted his willingness to compromise with the opposition parties over voting rights for diaspora Greeks in a bid to advertise his moderate style as well as to settle the longstanding electoral loose end.

What brought down Golden Dawn?

By: Georgia Nakou

The Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn burst onto the parliamentary scene overnight in 2012, to the alarm of democratic forces across Europe. Seven years later, the party finds itself out of the national and the European Parliament after losing more than half its voters.

Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks

Kyriakos Mitsotakis set about appointing the team to carry out his mandate to transform Greece after New Democracy’s landslide election victory on Sunday.

Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage

Sunday’s elections delivered a big win for Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy, which will have a very workable majority in the next Parliament, but did not led to the crushing defeat that many expected for SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras.

Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis held his main campaign rally in Athens on Thursday night, urging voters to give him clear mandate to govern even though the latest opinion polls suggest that the centre-right party is already on course for an outright majority in the next Parliament.

Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sticking to his core themes of tax cuts and growth as Greece enters the final straight of a low-key election campaign that New Democracy looks set to win comfortably.

Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes

By: Georgia Nakou

Since key constituencies, including private and public sector workers and the young, abandoned governing SYRIZA to hand New Democracy a comfortable 9.5 percent lead in the May 26 European Parliament elections, the parties have been vying for the middle-class vote.

Mitsotakis aims to hit ground running as polls point to clear majority on July 7

Buoyed by what appears to be a decisive lead in the opinion polls, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been giving out more details about what plans he has for his first days in office.

Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past

The campaign for the July 7 elections has taken a brief detour through Greece’s recent past as the main parties try to pin blame for the crisis on each other.