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Samaras escalates row with PM as ELAS tries to build credibility Over recent weeks, pressure on Maximos has begun to converge from multiple directions: Antonis Samaras has escalated his personal confrontation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Predator surveillance scandal and Alexis Tsipras’s new party, the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), is simultaneously attacking the government’s economic narrative and grappling with the challenge of presenting a credible, fully costed alternative.
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Government embraces debtor compensation ruling as ELAS unveils frontline team Parliament is set to vote on Wednesday on a government amendment implementing the recent Supreme Court ruling on loans restructured under the Katseli Law.
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Parties shift into early campaign mode as ND mobilises and ELAS builds machine Greece may still be officially several months away from its next national election, but the country’s political landscape is already behaving as if the campaign has begun.
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Tsipras talks up ELAS momentum as ND pleads with former leader to stand down Alexis Tsipras is intensifying his campaign to position the newly formed ELAS as a decisive force in the next national elections, insisting that the political landscape has already shifted and that his movement is entering the race not to protest, but to win.
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Mitsotakis sets out 2027 strategy as ELAS accelerates build-out Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used a high‑profile television interview on Thursday night to set out his strategic roadmap to the 2027 elections.
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Mitsotakis sharpens "stability" message as Samaras looms and polls tighten Kyriakos Mitsotakis has begun to frame the next national elections as a choice between continuity and uncertainty, using a series of public interventions to underline what he sees as the central stake of the coming contest: whether Greece will stay on a path of macroeconomic and institutional stability.
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Mitsotakis tries to balance party discipline, right‑flank pressures with minor reshuffle Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s latest cabinet reshuffle was billed as a handful of targeted adjustments to fill unavoidable vacancies, rather than a more sweeping exercise that might have pointed to the date of the next elections.
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EPPO raises stakes over judicial independence question as new political entrants build cases The confrontation between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the government over the OPEKEPE farm subsidy scandal and the Floridis amendment has escalated into a test case for judicial independence, EU conditionality and the limits of executive control over institutions.