October 13, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In the second round of internal party elections for a new leader, socialist PASOK voted for the old leader, Nikos Androulakis. According to official announcement from the party Androulakis received 59.9% of the votes, while his rival Haris Doukas, the Mayor of Athens, received 40.1%. Participation in the second round …
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October 3, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
With a video posted on social media, the deposed leader of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, announced his candidacy for the new leadership of Greece’s main opposition party scheduled to take place next month. “I’m Stefanos.That’s it. We were born people, not ex officio,” Kasselakis starts his 4-minute long video in which …
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September 11, 2024
Greece, Politics
The Political Secretariat of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance discussed the process for electing the new party leader on Tuesday, after Stefanos Kasselakis was ousted with a vote on Sunday. The Secretariat proposed that the first round of internal elections be held on November 24, with a potential second round on December 1 …
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June 3, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Convicted leader of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, will return to prison after the judicial council of the Lamia Court of Appeals reversed his temporary release on Monday. 66-year-old Michaloliakos was released form prison beginning of May with a decision of a court in Central Greece on the ground of …
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May 13, 2024
Greece, Politics
Authorities in Volos detained a 13-year-old boy child for the homophobic verbal attack against SYRIZA leader, Stefanos Kasselakis. Kasselakis was delivering a speech in the city in central Greece on Sunday, when a voice was heard shouting at him “fa***t”. The SYRIZA leader replied calmly saying “Be well, come and …
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May 2, 2024
Greece, Politics
Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of neo-nazi Golden Dawn, convicted for establishment of a criminal organization, will be released from prison with a special degree, a decision of the judicial council of Lamia, central Greece. According to media reports on Thursday, the prosecutor rejects the release on grounds that the convicted …
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September 25, 2023
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday reached out to Stefanos Kasselakis to extend his congratulations on becoming the new leader of the SYRIZA left opposition. According to sources, Mitsotakis invited Kasselakis for a meeting in the coming days. In comments made earlier on Monday, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis expressed his …
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September 25, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Stefanos Kasselakis won the leadership of left-wing SYRIZA with 56.91% of the elections votes on Sunday. The new leader of Greece’ main opposition party will not be able to represent the party in the parliament, though, as he did not manage to get elected in the parliamentary elections in July …
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September 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
He is young, just 35 year old. And good looking: tall, well-built, with perfectly shining teeth and a bright, innocent looking smile. He looks at you straight with his blue eyes. Stefanos Kasselakis, the aspiring leader of left-wing SYRIZA, came out of the blue, from the other side of the …
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July 28, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek Parliament’s Committee on Institutions and Transparency will meet in a closed-door session on Friday to discuss the allegations of an attempted phone bugging made by socialist opposition PASOK-KINAL party leader Nikos Androulakis. Androulakis, leader of Greece’s third-largest political party and a member of the European Parliament, filed a …
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July 26, 2022
Greece, Politics
PASOK-KINAL leader and member of the European Parliament Nikos Androulakis filed a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court in Athens on Tuesday morning, complaining that there have been attempts to trap his mobile phone with the Predator spyware. Androulakis, reportedly discovered that somebody tried to infect …
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March 11, 2022
Greece
Convicted Golden Dawn leader and founder Nikos Michaloliakos has been intubated due to Covid-19 infection. He is currently in the ICU of the university hospital of Larissa, where he was transferred from prison.. The man who has underlying health issues was not vaccinated against the virus. Mihaloliakos was transferred to …
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December 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
Nikos Androulakis has been elected the new leader of socialist party Movement for Change (KINAL/PASOK). According to first results on Sunday evening, the 42-year-old politician gathered 68.42% of the 206,000 votes, while former prime minister Giorgos Papandreou received 31.58%. Papandreou but also PM Mitsotakis called the new leader and congratulated …
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October 25, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Fofi Gennimata, the leader of Movement for Change (KINALPASOK) died at 12:04 Monday noon hospital Evangelismos announced. Gennimata had been battling cancer for over a decade and was hospitalized two weeks ago. Monday morning media reported that her health condition had deteriorated. She had reportedly fell in ischemic shock of …
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October 22, 2020
Greece
Police is seeking for one of the Golden Dawn leaders, convict Christos Pappas, who has chosen to disappear instead to find himself in prison. It was a few hours after the court ruling on Thursday, when police officers visited Pappa’s home with an arrest warrant in their hands. The law …
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February 2, 2019
Very Mix
Ioannis Sakkaros is 26 years old and Greek. He is a driver of a diesel vehicle and very angry. He is still relatively unknown. That could change. Every week he leads more protesters to the streets of Stuttgart, in South-West Germany. Sakkaros is the leader of the German “Yellow Vests,” …
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November 13, 2017
Greece, Politics
PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata has gathered the majority of votes on Sunday elections that were held in order to choose a new leader for Greece’s socialist part PASOK. According to amna.gr, with 50 percent of the polling stations counted -which corresponds to about 70,000 votes- the results are: Fofi Gennimata …
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November 8, 2017
Greece, Politics
The name of the spouse of New Democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is included in the Paradise Papers. Mareva Grabowski – Mitsotaki appears as a shareholder of 50% of an offshore company based in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. The offshore “Eternia Capital Management” is the administrator of a fund …
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September 28, 2013
Politics
In a huge operation launched by judicial authorities and police, Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos, party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris and several other MPs have been arrested on Saturday morning. Greek media report that a total of 36 arrest warrants against MPs and local branches officials have been issued. The operation …
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September 19, 2013
Society
The news started to make the rounds on Greek internet on Wednesday evening. That the (alleged) driver of Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos was arrested in the broader Piraeus area for illegal possession of weapons. The police had acted on an anonymous tip off. Last winter the man had applied …
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