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  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Parties focus May Day messages on contrasting employment claims

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Campaign rallies taking place on May Day gave the main contenders in Greece’s upcoming parliamentary elections an opportunity to highlight their employment policies, with each claiming to have done more to advance the interests of working people.

  • Photo by MacroPolis Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Buoyed 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, informing voters of what they can expect if New Democracy is re-elected.

  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Top judge's resignation over election law overshadows campaigns

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The political row prompted by the resignation of the Supreme Court vice president rumbles on, as the opposition has fixed on claims by the former judge that the government attempted to bribe him into disqualifying a far-right party from the upcoming elections.

  • Photo by MacroPolis Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA

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    Parliament passed on Tuesday the government’s amendment aimed mainly at giving the Supreme Court the right to bar far-right Ellines (Greeks) from participating in the upcoming elections, although the legislation continued to be a sore point in the relations between New Democracy and its main rival SYRIZA.

  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Judicial row erupts over election legislation as poll points to ND recovery

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    As Greece enters Holy Week, ahead of the celebration of Christian Orthodox Easter this coming Sunday, the election campaign has been overshadowed by a fresh row over the government’s efforts to tinker with legislation aimed at preventing the far-right Ellines (Greeks) party from taking part in the upcoming ballot.

  • Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com] Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic

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    With opinion polls failing to predict a clear-cut result in May’s elections, attention has turned to the leadership manoeuvrings of the new far right party Ellines (Greeks), whose entry into Parliament could upset the already complex electoral arithmetic.

  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Vexed SYRIZA abstains from vote on election bans

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    The Greek Parliament voted, amid some acrimony, late on Wednesday night to allow the Supreme Court to ban parties that are led by convicted criminals and which represent a threat to democracy from taking part in the country’s elections.

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