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Machinations give both coalition and SYRIZA hope of winning presidential vote The almost daily headcount of Greek MPs ahead of February's presidential elections is continuing to give a conflicting picture about how events may play out early next year.
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PoliticsGreek Politics![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/21/tsipras_1000_myrto_2111-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Tsipras remains sketchy on coalition options, negotiating positions SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras gave on Monday his first televised interview since his party’s victory in the European Parliament elections but provided little new information regarding to his intentions for governing.
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Tsipras shuns growing calls for compromise on presidential vote Despite a flurry of calls for the government and the opposition to come to a compromise over the presidential candidate, putting an end to speculation about early elections, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras made it clear over the weekend that his party is in no mood to compromise.
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Uncertainty feeding tension within SYRIZA as well as Greek government The failure to reach an agreement with the troika has increased tension within the government but as the possibility of early elections and a SYRIZA victory gets closer, the opposition party is also beginning to show signs of fatigue.
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Tsipras bolsters ties with Europe’s rising leftists but also looks beyond For the last couple of years, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has described what seemed like a leftist pipedream: The uniting of left-wing political forces on the eurozone periphery. Now, he is at the forefront of trying to turn this into reality.
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SYRIZA shows keener interest in foreign policy as possible elections near Seeing the government close to buckling under the pressure of having to meet the troika's targets, SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras chose to inflict his own kind of pain on Wednesday, when he claimed that a leftist government would not be bound by the demands made by Greece's lenders.
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Greek coalition left with bailout exit conditions it wanted to avoid Eurozone finance ministers have agreed that Greece should be given a precautionary credit line when the European part of its bailout is completed at the end of the year but the new agreement will entail new conditionality, a role for the International Monetary Fund and debt relief talks being put at the back burner – all factors that the coalition wanted to avoid for domestic reasons.
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Samaras and Tsipras prepared to go toe to toe all the way to February In true pre-election mode, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras attempted to outdo each other on Monday after they each held separate talks with President Karolos Papoulias, the figure who has found himself at the centre of political developments in Greece.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
SYRIZA's weak foreign, defence policy credentials a vulnerability With all the focus falling on its economic policies, little attention has been paid to where SYRIZA stands on defence and foreign policy. With Greece potentially just a few months away from early elections and a change of government, there are few questions being asked about the leftist party’s ability to handle such sensitive policy areas.
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Mixed messages continue to dog SYRIZA The prospect of power often has magical powers in terms of uniting a party but in SYRIZA’s case an ever more solid lead in opinion polls and the possibility that Greece will hold national elections in just a few months’ time is doing little to unite the party behind a single message.