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  • Image: www.syriza.gr Tsipras stakes claim for election win despite discouraging poll data

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    As Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis steps up his efforts to woo voters ahead of the elections, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has insisted that a government can be formed after the first vote, negating the need for a second ballot where the winning party would be boosted by a 50-seat bonus.

  • 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.

  • Photo by Manolis Tsafos/Fosphotos PM sees stance on defence issues as vote winner for ND

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    Parliament is due to vote this Wednesday on legislation that would ban the far-right Ellines party from taking part in this year’s elections, which SYRIZA feels Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to turn into a contest about each party’s patriotism.

  • Image: https://kinimaallagis.gr/ PASOK feels the squeeze as main rivals paint stark election dilemma

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    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.

  • Photo by MacroPolis ND views SYRIZA's Parliament walkout as a pre-election gift

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    The government believes that SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has scored an own goal by pulling his party out of any further votes in Parliament until elections take place, although New Democracy is plagued by its own concerns in the form of allegations about corruption within the police force.

  • Photo by MacroPolis PM bats away surveillance claims, looks to final pre-election handouts

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    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who left Athens on Friday for an official visit to Japan, easily survived the no-confidence vote called by the opposition but SYRIZA is not intending to let the surveillance issue die down despite the New Democracy leader’s best efforts to turn the tables on Alexis Tsipras.

  • Photo by MacroPolis Transparency concerns emerge among voters as leaders clash over wiretapping

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    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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