New Democracy

Though a solid majority has already decided who they feel is best suited to manage the country’s future, the next few weeks will be decisive in determining the power balances in the next Parliament.

Tsipras scrapped plans to hold elections in October after losing the 26 May European election to ND by a margin of 9.3 percentage points.

In terms of voter intention, the spread between SYRIZA and New Democracy is 7.7 percentage points.

Conservative austerity versus SYRIZA social benefits and relief for the vulnerable is the ruling party’s new Manichaean political dilemma for voters.

The survey gave New Democracy a high of 36. 5 percent and a low of 31.5 percent compared to a high of 27.5 percent and a low of 22.5 percent for SYRIZA,

Main opposition conservative New Democracy has scored its greatest victory ever in regional and municipal elections, winning 11 of the country's 12 prefectures

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

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.

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

Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos in an initial effort at damage control said that result is not the strategic defeat of the government that its opponents had strived for.

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 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.

For the first time ever, Greece, which founded the Games and hosted the first modern Games in 2016, has since then not had a member on the IOC.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

In the first post-war decades PPC operated as a model of an efficient and profitable enterprise. It built large electricity production plants, exploited domestic lignite deposits, and built impressive hydroelectric plants.