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Opposition anger at constrained surveillance inquiry not yet reflected in public mood The opposition parties are growing increasingly frustrated with what they see as the government’s attempts to obstruct any meaningful investigation into the surveillance scandal, which for the time being seems to be low down on the list of Greek voters’ priorities.
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ND moves to discredit SYRIZA programme, muses over far-right alliance Alexis Tsipras has been accused of making empty promises, as government figures react to the SYRIZA programme presented over the weekend. A row has erupted over the costing of the opposition’s pledges, as New Democracy warns that spending excesses under SYRIZA will bring a return to bailouts.
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Tsipras hits back with own economic pledges, choice for voters to ponder Alexis Tsipras responded to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) speech a week earlier by making his own policy pledges and presenting voters with a different political equation to consider ahead of next year’s general elections.
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SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM As SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis prepare to travel to Thessaloniki to provide their responses to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the trade fair on Saturday, the surveillance scandal continues to be a bone of contention between the government and the opposition.
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First head-to-head clash over spying scandal in Parliament fails to deliver decisive blow A much-anticipated party leaders’ debate in Greek Parliament on Friday was heavy in terms of accusation and counter-accusation but did not produce a definitive moment that could shape political developments decisively in the coming days and weeks.
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Flashpoints fuel contest for centrist voters As the battle intensifies between Greek parties for the support of centre ground voters, a group which could decide the outcome of the next elections, opinion polls continue to show that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a strong appeal among centrists, and that PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis has overtaken SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras.
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Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may have taken the possibility of snap elections off the table, at least for now, but the opposition parties are showing no appetite for letting up in their efforts to improve their standing ahead of the next vote.
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Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections The fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call snap elections in the autumn continued on Friday as the local media attempted to explain his decision given that early polls were considered a near certainty over the last few weeks.
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Judges' Novartis decision revives political battle over bribery scandal The Novartis scandal, which had been bubbling beneath the surface for the last few years, resurfaced at the end of last week after a judicial investigation into claims that members of the previous SYRIZA-led government, prosecutors and journalists conspired to implicate several former New Democracy and PASOK ministers reached a dead-end.
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Verbal exchanges with Turkey intensify, but voters still largely focussed on inflation The war of words between Greece and Turkey went up a notch on Thursday due to an intervention by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but concern about the cost-of-living crisis still outweighs the worries caused by tension with Ankara, according to yet another opinion poll.