Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Mitsotakis’ choice of Thessaloniki to wrap up his campaign was linked to his staunch opposition to the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement, which is extremely unpopular and a vote-getter there.

The Supreme Court Prosecutor said that the Volos judicial council had wrongly interpreted the provisions of the penal code that apply to the case and that N17's top gun was formally entitled to the furlough.

New Democracy’s MEPs will immediately after the 26 May Europarliament election actively promote recognition of the Pontian genocide, and the same will be done by the party’s representatives in the Council of Europe.

“Mr. Tsipras lies seven days a week,” Mitsotakis said after the vitriolic response of the PM’s office to his comment on flexible labour relations.

Both Tsipras and Mitsotakis called on the electorate to treat the 26 May European Parliament election as a referendum on their parties’ political programmes.

Mr. Tsipras has a tendency to highlight the supposed scandals of others and to justify his own pompous behaviour as he retains the privilege of judging everyone.

Tsipras said that the 10 May parliamentary confidence vote and the 26 May elections are both a confidence vote on the government's economic stimulus programme.

Mitsotakis and other top MP cadres are stressing that Polakis who is known for his vulgarity and Tsipras who covers for him are one and the same thing.

Tsipras first threw down the gauntlet in Parliament and today SYRIZA spokesperson Rania Svigou reissued the invitation in a letter to New Democracy spokesperson Maria Zacharaki.

For its part, the government has said that it has the requisite fiscal space to rescind the law and that it intends to do so, but the European Commission views the measure as a structural reform, not as a revenue-raising measure.

Georgiadis was one of ten politicians investigated by the judiciary in the context of a probe of the Novartis scandal after a parliamentary majority lifted their immunity and sent their case back to the judiciary.

PM Alexis Tsipras said he will turn the no confidence motion against Polakis into a confidence vote for the government.

Mitsotakis charged that SYRIZA systematically undermines democratic institutions, violates freedom of the press, and meddles in the independent judiciary and independent state authorities.

After his victory in the 2015 election, Mr. Tsipras used alleged scandals to chase his opponents and systematised his effort to conquer the media.

'We discussed special matters of economic cooperation and how we can extend our capability to attract foreign investments from Russian to Greece and how we can improve the performance of Greek exports to Russia.'

The government agreed with creditors on high primary surpluses which it hiked even more so that it could distribute poverty benefits.

'There is consensus across the political divide on this issue. I think 3.5 percent - and I’ve said it for an awful long time – is too high, especially for a country that has lost 27 percent of its GDP.'

SYRIZA ministers and cadres may have studied abroad and sent their children to private schools, but the establishment of non-state universities remains taboo.

The focus of the dispute was the proposed change of the procedure for electing the President of the Republic in Parliament.

Greece will hold European Parliament as well as local and prefectural elections in May, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is keeping his cards close to the vest regarding the timing of the general election