SYRIZA

The Minister of Growth Kostis Hatzidakis announced from the stand in parliament today that he is determined to implement the OECD’s proposal regarding the retail sale of bread, according to which bread will be sold by weight, rather than estimated size. The announcement came in his response to a question posed by SYRIZA MP Panagiotis […]

The education community is in uproar over the recent police visits to a number of schools, with teachers and parents alleging that in some cases, school students were called to provide explanations regarding school occupations. The Central Police HQ recently issued an order for police departments to visit local schools in order to document any […]

The vocal and public disagreement between SYRIZA executives over the selection of the party’s candidates in the upcoming elections illustrates the intense debate and schism emerging in the opposition leaders. The selection of Giorgos Karypidis and Odysseas Voudouris, who do not belong to the opposition party, to represent SYRIZA in the upcoming elections prompted a […]

The leader of DIMAR Fotis Kouvelis gave an interview to Vima 99.5 regarding the upcoming elections, the recent developments in the center left and the possibility of his party rejoining the coalition government. Regarding the upcoming municipal and regional government elections in May, Mr. Kouvelis estimated that they will be highly politicized, but the focus […]

According to a study conducted by Public Issue in early February, opposition party SYRIZA is ahead of New Democracy in the polls, despite having suffered a minor drop compared to the divs in January. The polls were published in the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper and shows SYRIZA in first place with a 30% share (compared […]

The nine people who were arrested for a rally that escalated with an arson attack against a toll booth in Malakasa have been taken to prosecutor to state their plea and later set free. The nine people are facing charges of disrupting the peace, arson, disrupting transport security, obstructing transport, traffic disturbance, excess damage and […]

On his last day in Rome, the leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras met with Nichy Vendola, the president of the Left Ecology Freedom party and Nicola Zingaretti, current governor of Lazio, with whom he discussed his vision of Europe. Mr. Tsipras explained that “we do not want any other people to find themselves in the […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos met on Saturday and agreed to change the method of voting from the current proportional electoral system that has been in place since 1981, to voting directly for the individual candidate. Aside from changing the method of election from a party list, as […]