Main opposition conservative New Democracy has scored its greatest victory ever in regional and municipal elections, winning 11 of the country's 12 prefectures
Within three years, Tsipras led a very small party to become one of the country’s top two parties, with a good shot at gaining power.
In a bombshell move, centre-left Movement for Change (mainly Pasok) leader Fofi Genninata has shown ex-Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos the door after her decision today to give former Athens Mayor Yorgos Kaminis the top spot on the party’s statewide ticket after months of rumours that Venizelos would be offered the slot. Kaminis is a centre-left […]
Any investment had to pass multiple hurdles to gain initial approval. Then it was blocked by either by the bureaucracy or incompetent political management.
Τhe cabinet nominated Eirini Kalou as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), and Dimitra Kokotini as Chief Prosecutor.
Cadres of two top parties have accused each other of wanting to appoint their own candidates to the top Supreme Court posts so as to have more lenient treatment in cases involving their parties or politicians
For many, the effort to create a new narrative and disseminate it within a month - so as to stem a mass defection from a party widely expected to be annihilated in a New Democracy landslide - is simply unfeasible.
A move to swiftly replace the leadership of the Supreme Court now entangles it in political games. It may also be motivated by the government's anxiety about the future.
Tourism-related investment activity amounted to 5bn euros, of which 1.9bn concerned domestic added value.
Greek Police officers have been highly politicised along party lines for decades, and that can be explained in part by the fact that most often Greek governments pick police brass based on party affiliation.
Even those in SYRIZA who now discern errors had completely accepted one-man rule and the transformation of a putatively left-wing party into one revolving around the leader.
Party leader StavrosTheodorakis recommended that the party not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections but said he will make that decision after consulting with party cadres nationwide.
Running on the “Piraeus Victorious” ticket, Marinakis garnered a whopping 13, 215 votes, nearly six times the number of votes given to the Councilman who placed second.
Konstantina Kouneva became a heroic figure of the trade unionist movement in Greece as a fervent advocate of the rights of cleaning women who provide services through outsourcing.
PM Alexis Tsipras has said that after the 2 June run-offs in prefectural and local elections he will ask President Prokopis to dissolve Parliament and call elections.
Mr. Tsipras has depicted himself as the protector of the poor and vulnerable and his opponent as a monster out of the Book of Revelation which has come to suck the blood of the people.
Tsipras did not budge from Manichaen polital narrative which pits the callous neo-party of New Democracy “with extreme right ministers” against the progressive and caring SYRIZA.
New Democracy is the undisputed victor of the European Parliament elections and its dominance in almost the entire country is complete and leveling.
In the month-long general election campaign, ND and SYRIZA will work toward limiting defections to other parties. ND will call on the electorate to hand it a strong single-party absolute majority in Parliament
The move came immediately after main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis demanded that Tsipras resign and call a general election.