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.
Now that Tsipras is determined to shift his party’s direction toward Social Democracy and a broad progressive front, he has courted the European Socialists and it appears that the love has not been unrequited.
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 finance minister said that the worst thing that the government did was to cut pensions, “although we tried to make it less painful than the right-wing would have”.
The poll shows that in the 13 prefectures of the region of Macedonia SYRIZA is trailing New Democracy by a whopping 14.3 percentage points, largely due to the hugely unpopular Prespa Agreement.
SYRIZA, which until recently led a coalition government with the far right Independent Greeks as the junior partner, just discovered the utility of a “progressive alliance”.
'The government avoided a substantial probe of the real scandal of how the price of medicines skyrocketed, which involves its own ministers as well, and chose to target specific politicians. It is continuing to announce in advance or even order judicial moves,' said Meni Malliori
The centre-left party says that the entire Novartis affair is a conspiracy staged jointly by SYRIZA and the Karamanlis faction of New Democracy.
The ambitions and plans of the PM to create a progressive political pole and alliance are legitimate, as long as they have substance, both on his side and on the side of those whom he is inviting
Extreme right-wing Chrysi Avgi places third with 8.6 percent followed by the Movement for Change (7.9 percent), and the Greek Communist Party (6.7 percent).
'You cannot have certain people viewing SYRIZA as progressive when in fact it serves the interests of the few and powerful, both in Greece and abroad,' Gennimata said.
Gennimata expelled from the party the leader of the small, cooperating Democratic Left party, Thanasis Theocharopoulos
'An international agreement cannot recognise ethnicity but only nationality. States recognise states,' Tsipras declared.
“We shall do everything in our power to improve the agreement since the ragtag [governing] majority has decided to bring it to a vote and we cannot overturn it,” one ND source said.
Barring any surprises the government will have a majority to ratify the Prespa Accord on the Foreign Affairs Committee and in the upcoming 24 January ratification vote in a plenary session of parliament.
The PM sought to be recognised as the sole opponent of New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, by exploiting an issue of national import that has divided Greek society for nearly three decades.
The prime minister has said that right after ratification of the Prespa Accord, the government will table in Parliament the Protocol on FYROM’s admission to Nato, which the legislatures of all of the Alliance’s member-states must approve.
Following a dip in opinion surveys, main opposition New Democracy has regained an over ten percentage point lead – 10.5 percentage points – over ruling SYRIZA, according to a poll ordered by SKAI television and conducted by Greece’s Pulse polling company. The result, following a proportional distribution of the undecided vote to the parties, New […]
Party sources say that those efforts will have the exactly opposite result, to rally the base of the Movement for Change, which appears ready for a frontal confrontation with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
The poll gives New Democracy 31.5 percent, compared to 22 percent for SYRIZA, followed by extreme right Golden Dawn with seven percent, 6.5 percent for the centre-left Movement for Change, and the Greek Communist Party (KKE) with 5.5 percent.