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On Sunday, May 6th 2012,  ballot boxes in 5,000 polls will be open from “sunrise to sunset”, that is from 7 am until 7 pm. Thirty-two political parties are competing for voters’ preference. Voting is mandatory is Greece, however no penatlies or sanctions have ever been enforced to those who …

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 Ioulita Iliopoulou got angry to see Nea Dimokratia using a picture and a verse of the great Greek poet and winner of 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, Odysseas Elytis at the party’s main elections spot. “Elytis belongs to all Greeks and cannot be claimed by any political party” Iliopoulou, the guardian …

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Greece΄s technocrat prime minister Lucas Papademos plans to resume his academic career after a snap election on May 6, a senior government official said, having secured a second bailout for the country. According to Reuters, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, Papademos took over as leader of …

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Caretaker prime minister of Greece and ex-banker Lucas Papademos made a crucial statement, just a few days before Greeks rush to voting booths. “The elections willl decide on the future of the country,” Papademos told to his government cabinet ministers on Wednesday.   “In a few days we will hand out …

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That’s an interesting report about the homeless in Athens, published by Greek blog PrezaTV short before the elections on May 6th. The report is in so far worth reading, because it demonstrates a weak point of the pre-elections campaign: that not one political party running for the elections contest addresses a permanent …

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 It’s not only Greeks worrying about the outcome of the May-6 elections. Lenders, investors and banks cannot hide their fears either. However the concerns of Greeks and markets stand diametrically opposite to each other. While more than 60% of Greeks worry they may get another PASOK-Nea Dimocratia government, the money sector …

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The countdown started in the final run for the parliamentary elections on May 6th 2012. However given the ideological differences and the numerical difficulties that may block the formation of a stable government, political parties have already begun ton work on scenarios for the next day – or better say: for the next …

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Just one week before the May 6th elections and people seem unstoppably angry about the two big parties (socialist PASOK, conservative Nea Dimokratia). The parties themselves are allegedly in panic, while pollsters are puzzled over the blurre political climate. Sunday newspaper Proto Thema revealed that the rolling public opinion surveys that …

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Do not get irritated or scared by the title of this post.  It is just a scenario circulating in Greece in the last 24 hours in Greece. A scenario that set the political parties on fire, after Alexis Tsipras, leader of left-wing SYRIZA,  declared that he would support a coalition with nationalist …

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After an long silence and short before the elections of May 6th, former prime minister George Papandreou decided to make some statements and thus in a local newspaper. In an interview to daily “Peloponnese” Papandreou said that he “apologizes in the name of the whole political world for the cuts in …

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PASOK Leader Evangelos Venizelos set the lines about a coalition government after the parliamentary elections of May sixth. “Government cooperation will be possible only if we get together with [conservative] Nea Dimocratia more than 50%. I think that 50% of the citizens [votes] is the basic majority.” Speaking to news portal NewsIt.gr …

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A group of young and dynamic people are getting ready to save Greece and do what they can to enter the parliament. They are sure of their win and even hope to be a serious challenge for well established big parties. The party has a thorough plan and a persuasive leader. After …

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Greeks seem to have a new hobby: boo and insult politicians while they hold election campaign meetings. The number of incidents increase almost on a daily basis, as the elections thermometer rises, the politicians are exposed to the public preferably via the secure area of the television screen and the leaders of the  …

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This is the Greek political party with a title of the length of a model train or an ad of a real estate agency whose owner has gone nuts.  25 words to describe what the founder Miltiadis Tsalazidis wants to express:: Independent Renewing Left, Renewing Right, Renewing PASOK, Renewing Nea Democratia, …

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The upcoming elections in Greece offer the angry, frustrated and undecided voter a wide spectrum of choices. A whole of 36 political parties have submitted their applications to run for the parliamentary elections that will take place on May 6, 2012. Big parties, small parties, one-person parties, estalbished parties, fringe parties, …

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While the general election campaign is in full speed, the latest public opinion polls destroy any political hopes for an absolute majority and the formation of  one-party government. Greece’s voters will most likely cast their vote pushed by the motivation to “punish” those parties that governed the country for almost four decades and …

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“Our target is to change everything” conservative Nea Democratia leader Antonis Samaras told ND supporters and potential voters in Athens. Structural reforms, privatization programmes, tax evasion, a more simple and fair taxation system, ‘economic amnesty’ so that money return returns to the country and the banks, securing low pensions are some …

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