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PASOK feels the squeeze as main rivals paint stark election dilemma With all parties in informal campaign mode, the outcome of the next elections is becoming increasingly uncertain. The gap between New Democracy and SYRIZA is closing, while PASOK is emerging as the main loser in an increasingly polarised debate.
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Transparency concerns emerge among voters as leaders clash over wiretapping The debate that followed the censure motion tabled by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras this week is due to climax on Friday, when PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the opposition chief do battle over the surveillance scandal before MPs vote in a ballot that New Democracy is expected to win comfortably given its six-seat majority.
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Independent watchdog in eye of storm as parties clash over surveillance probe The political clash over the surveillance scandal went up a notch on Tuesday, when SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras called on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to resign and the government suggested that the head of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) is doing the opposition party’s bidding.
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Opposition dismisses PM's economic pledges as electioneering, keeps focus on surveillance Opposition parties have dismissed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s latest economic measures as a pre-election stunt, while signalling their intention to keep up the pressure to bring the government to account over the surveillance affair.
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ND's lead narrows but PM's election hopes still alive In its first survey of the year for Alpha TV, Alco indicated that support for New Democracy has edged back up after dipping towards the end of 2022. According to the opinion poll, 31 pct of respondents say they intend to back the conservatives, up from 30.3 pct in the previous sounding.
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New Democracy moves to corral far-right vote, as PM braces for more surveillance evidence The ambivalent stance adopted by the leadership of New Democracy to the funeral of the former king Constantine has been attacked by opposition parties who see it as a play for the far-right vote, an impression amplified by the government’s plan to block an offshoot of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party from participating in the upcoming elections.
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Constitutional row follows political storm over prosecutor's intervention in surveillance probe In the latest twist in the surveillance affair, a controversial opinion by Greece's top prosecutor has come under sustained attack by opposition parties and constitutional experts.
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Row over independent probe into surveillance affair threatens to boil over The government is facing a mounting constitutional dispute that is related to the surveillance scandal, an issue that New Democracy has been trying to put to bed ahead of the elections later this year.
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Opposition hoping surveillance, cronyism scandals will bite ND As it looks ahead to this year’s elections, New Democracy continues to be dogged by fears that the longstanding surveillance affair as well as occasional scandals involving its MPs could affect public opinion and prevent the centre-right party from winning a majority or even returning to power.
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Resignation keeps surveillance issue in spotlight The year concludes with the government still being dogged by the surveillance issue, a matter that New Democracy thought at various points during 2022 that it had laid to rest.