One more MP of SYRIZA left the party bringing its seats in the Parliament down to 26. MP Rania Thraskia, a former TV persona, announced on Tuesday she is leaving the party to become an independent lawmaker. “I will continue my parliamentary work unwavering, as I have done until today …
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One more MP resigns from SYRIZA leaving the party with 28 deputies
MP Yiannis Sarakiotis, elected with SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance in Fthiotida, sent a letter to the Parliament speaker on Thursday announcing that he leaves the party’s parliamentary group and goes independent. SYRIZA reportedly urged him to return his seat to the party. Sarakiotis did not vote for the new SYRIZA leader on …
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SYRIZA expels controversial MP Polakis from parliamentary group
Controversial SYRIZA MP and former Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis was expelled from the party’s parliamentary group on Thursday evening after a decision of Stefanos Kasselakis following an incident in parliament. Polakis was expelled apparently for “bullying’ an aide to Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis during a parliamentary debate on the …
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ND MP and ex minister Avgenakis assaults airport employee for missing flight (video)
Ruling New Democracy lawmaker who served as minister of Mitsotakis government since 2019, Lefteris Avgenakis, was caught by security camera to get physical against an employee of the Athens International airport. Prior to the CCTV footage released on Wednesday, there was an official denouncement by the Athens Airport Employees union …
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Nationalist Greek Solution expels MP
The nationalist party Greek Solution expelled MP Pavlos Sarakis on Tuesday. The party, which won fourth place in the recent European Parliament elections, issued a statement citing “arrogance, ingratitude, lack of moderation, and disparaging behavior towards colleagues” as reasons for Sarakis’ expulsion. The 55-year-old lawyer was ousted following a disagreement …
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Independent MP who punched a lawmaker released after testifying to magistrate
Independent MP Konstantinos Floros, formerly of the opposition Spartiates party, was released after testifying before an examining magistrate on Thursday. He was accused that he had physically assaulted a fellow MP, Elliniki Lysi deputy Vasilis Grammenos, in the colonnade surrounding the Parliament a day earlier. Both the examining magistrate and …
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ND MP slapped inside church while attending Sunday mass
New Democracy MP, Angeliki Delikari, got slapped by another woman during the Sunday mass in a church in Kavala, northern Greece, on Sunday morning. The attacker is a European elections candidate of Niki, a religious-conservative party with seats in Parliament. She came close and hit me with all her strength, …
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Archbishop investigates clergy’s rant against PASOK MP
Archbishop Ieronymos ordered on Tuesday an internal inquiry against the Archimandrite of the Ilioupolis in Athens, Seraphim Dimitriou, after the latter targeted an MP and his family for voting in favor of the same-sex marriage. Father Seraphim posted on social media pictures of the wife and new-born baby of MP …
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SYRIZA: One more MP resigns leaving party with 35 in Parliament
Main opposition party SYRIZA lost one more seat in the Parliament after Magnisia MP Katerina Papanatsiou resigned from the party on Monday. The party has now 35 seats in a Parliament of 300 in total. She justified her decision citing disagreements with the party’s new leadership. Decrying SYRIZA’s “gradual mutation” …
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ND MP Syrigos: “97% of Lausanne Treaty is obsolete”; statement triggers outrage
Ruling New Democracy MP and professor of international law, Angelos Syrigos, stirred the public debate when he claimed that “some articles of the Lausanne Treaty were out of date.” Among others, he referred to the articles regarding the military presence on the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea. Syrigos’ statements …
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Muslim ND candidate withdraws from election race after alleged intel report
Mustafa Katranci, a parliamentary candidate for conservative New Democracy from the Rhodope province in northeastern Greece, announced on Monday he was withdrawing from the electoral race, after the main opposition claimed that his name was included in an intelligence report citing his alleged links to the Turkish Consulate in Komotini. …
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Ex SYRIZA Minister, businessman guilty over TV license auction
In a unanimous decision Friday a Special Court found former SYRIZA minister Nikos Pappas guilty of dereliction of duty over the handling of a 2016 television license tender. Guilty was found also businessman Christos Kalogritsas for the crime of moral turpitude in the breach of duty of Pappas. The Special …
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SYRIZA MP and ex shipping minister Nektarios Santorinios dies at 50
Nektarios Santorinios, the SYRIZA MP for the Dodecanese islands and former deputy minister for shipping, has died. He was 50 years old. Santorinios died of cancer in a hospital on his native Rhodes, in the southeastern Aegean, according to an announcement on Monday. The Greek Parliament held a minute of …
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ND MP resigns over misuse of state money to help his business
New Democracy MP for Fthiotida, Central Greece, Themis Himaras, resigned as a parliamentary deputy on Wednesday following reports he misused state money for the benefit of his business, in violation of the Constitution. Article 57 of the Constitution of Greece is clear about the business activities of a member of …
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ND expels MP Patsis for buying “red” loans, ELTA CEO resignation followss
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expelled Andreas Patsis, MP for Grevena. from ruling New Democracy’s (ND) parliamentary group. Reason for his expulsion is that as an MP has had a company -an offshore – that had bought “red loans from bank at 1/5 of their values. Further more, he …
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Third female MP resigns from Varoufakis’ MeRA25
An MP from MeRA25, the left-wing party of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, announced on Monday she was leaving its parliamentary group. Fotini Bakadima, who represents the second constituency of Piraeus, said she would continue to sit in Parliament as an independent MP. IN her resignation letter, Bakadima reportedly accused …
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“No VAT reduction for the rich eat more pasta than the poor,” says ND MP
“We cannot reduce the Value Added Tax in pasta, because the rich eat more than the poor.” The statements by New Democracy MP Constantinos Kyranakis about the government’s refusal to reduce the VAT triggered an outrage and a lot of taunt on social media on Thursday. “The rich and the …
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Wiretapping scandal: SYRIZA MP’s phone infected with Predator spyware
The wiretapping scandal in Greece reached a new level on Friday, when SYRIZA MP and former Citizen Protection Minister Christos Spirtzis (SYRIZA) filed a lawsuit at the country Supreme Court. His phone was wiretapped with spyware Predator, in the same period as of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and journalist Thanassis …
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SYRIZA expels MP Kouroublis over inappropriate behavior; “Gov’t murdering people” he said
SYRIZA MP Panagiotis Kouroublis was expelled from the party on Thursday evening after he was censured by the plenary of Parliament for inappropriate behavior. Greece’s main opposition party, left0wing SYRIZA has now 86 seats in a parliament of 300. Party leader Alexis Tsipras conveyed the decision in a letter read …
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PM Mitsotakis ousts MP Bogdanos from ND over anti-communist rant
With express procedures, New Democracy lawmaker Konstantinos Bogdanos was expelled from the parliamentary group of the ruling party on Tuesday evening after a anti-communist rant in the Parliament where he claimed among others that communists were a bigger threat to Greece than Turkey. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who is in …
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