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Elections 2015- Final Results: SYR 36.34%, ND 27.81% GD 6.28%

Election 25. January 2015: seven parties succeded the 3% threshold and entered the Greek Parliament. Registered voters: 9,.911,495 . Voted 63.87%. Invalid/White 2.36%. Out of the Parliament 8,62%. Coalition government: SYRIZA (149) – Independent Greeks (13 seats) = total 162 seats in a parliament of 300. Absolute Majority in Parliament …

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Two days before elections: SYRIZA leads in six polls

Left-wing SYRIZA constantly leads in all polls conducted a couple of days before the crucial elections on Sunday. Its difference to Nea Dimokratia is 4.4%-10%. However, pollsters “see” no majority government so far. On the other hand, the rates of undecided still remains between 9% and 10%.   Poll GPO …

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Greek elections: Latest polls and estimated seats distributions

Left-wing SYRIZA increases its rates towards conservative Nea Dimokratia in the several polls published five days before the elections on Sunday. The growing rate difference 4%-6.5% is been justified with the rate of former ND-voters (elections 2012) who tend to cast a vote for SYRIZA. Pollsters estimate that 3% of …

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Question here: Why didn’t EU-partners support Samaras?

The whole world is against a SYRIZA-led government. The Greek and international mainstream media, the EU-partners, the Draghis, the Junckers and the Lagardes, they all warn SYRIZA it has to stick to the commitments signed by Nea Dimokratia and PASOK coalition, the Papademos and the Papandreou governments. Day in, day …

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SYRIZA leads in 3 public opinion polls, gap to ND 2.8%-4.9%

Main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZa leads in three public opinion polls published on Tuesday, one day before the first round of voting for Greece’s new President. However, the gap to PM Samaras’ Nea Dimokratia is not extraordinary big. The difference is between 2.8% to 4.9%. In all polls centre-left wing …

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Athens Stock Exchange in free fall after PM’s fearmongering speech

I suppose Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had a noble cause when he arranged that his speech to the parliamentary group of Nea Dimokratia should be live on television. The plan backfired. The PM mainly and fiercely attacked left-wing SYRIZA “for bringing back Grexit fears”and had stock marketers sell off even …

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ND MP Psycharis’ resignation frees analysts’ imagination

Sudden and unexpected, Nea Dimokratia MP Andreas Psycharis submitted his resignation from the party of PM Samaras, right after he voted in the Greek Parliament in favor of the crucial bill granting debtors up to 100-installment payment scheme. In a press release, Psycharis explained the reason for his resignation as …

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Athens: riot police against students with batons & teargas (video)

Clashes between armed riot police and unarmed students, batons landing on heads and back bones, teargas and garbage bins set on fire were the features of the tension scenery on Thursday night that took place in downtown Athens, near Omonia square. One Photo reporter was attacked by police and injured, …

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Rhodes: Jobless father hands out baby to tax office, after FinMin confiscates his last €300

A desperate jobless father entered the tax office in Rhodes holding in his arms his 1.5-year-old baby. “Take it,” he told the stunned tax officers “I cannot feed it anymore.” A day earlier, the divorced father had found out that the tax office had confiscated 300 euro from his bank …

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Stournaras refutes Stournaras: he wants to stay in FinMin despite ND criticism on EP elections results

“I am not going to turn into a punching bag,” Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras had let his critics know through his close aides. “I do not wish to stay in the ministry under these circumstances,” Stournaras had felt the need to reply to criticism coming from Nea Dimokratia that …

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Elections 2014 Opinion Polls: SYRIZA ahead of Nea Dimokratia

Two public opinion polls about the European Parliament elections show that left-wing SYRIZA is ahead of Nea Dimokratia even if the difference varies from 1% to 3.4%. Poll conducted by ALCO: SYRIZA 24.2% Nea Dimokratia 20.8% Golden dawn 7.7% To Potami 5.8% PASOK/ELIA 5.3% KKE 4.8% Independent Greeks 3.3% Democratic …

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High on Greek agenda: non-stop disputes ahead the elections

Dispute is high on the agenda just a couple of weeks before the EU and the municipalities elections with each party trying to trip the rival and gain points in the voters’ preference. At the same time the political, economical and social disputes set the climate on fire not only …

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Greek FinMin names three MPs who transferred money abroad

A lawmaker from Samaras’ Nea Dimokratia, one from former Samaras’ juniior coaltion partner Democratic Left and one from nationalist opposition Independent Greeks. The three MPs saw their names in a statement issued by the Greek Finance Ministry on Monday. A statement saying that they had transferred money abroad. also the …

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Greeks survived “political crisis” weekend spitting seeds in watermelon contest

We, the Greeks living in this wonderful, sun-kissed and beauty-blessed country, survived another politically tense weekend.  We survived it without injuries and bruises. We, the simple Greeks: the average jobless, the employee on time-contract, the pensioner. In fact, our only care was whether we can afford to turn on the …

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Opinion Polls: Nea Dimocratia – SYRIZA virtually tied, “best PM” is Mr “Nobody”

Government party conservative Nea Dimocratia and main opposition left-wing SYRIZA are virtually tied in two public opinion polls, with SYRIZA to have a slight lead in one of them. However the majority of the Greeks believe the country is “heading to wrong direction”, while “best Prime Minister” is considered to by …

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Assailants fired shots with AK47 at Nea Dimocratia HQ – Bullet in Samaras’ office

Unknown assailants fired shots with a Kalashnikov rifle at the headquarters of government party Nea Dimocratia. The assault was so bold that even “a bullet was found in the office of  ND leader and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras”, so the police and the media. The attack took place at 3 …

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Arson attack against gov’t spokesman’s brother sparks ND-SYRIZA dispute

Who will be the next target of arsonists? this must be the question puzzling officers of Greek police after  barrage of self-made gas bombs exploding outside the homes of journalists, government party officers and banks ATMs. The latest target was the brother of government spokesman Simon Kedikoglou. Short before midnight on Saturday, unknown …

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Athens: Self-made devices explode outside homes of five journalists

 UPDATE: an organization that appears for the firt time claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a statement uploaded in athens-indimedia, the organization calling itsself “Cycles of violators/Cell of lawlessness lovers” claimed responsibility on Friday evening. Statement here but in Greek. Self-made devices exploded outside the homes of five well-known journalists …

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Public Opinion Survey: Syriza 23.5%, ND 19%, Golden Dawn 12%…

Main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA leads in the latest public opinion survey, conducted by Puls for newspaper “6 Meres” (6 Days). Samaras party Nea Dimocratia, and his coalition partners PASOK and Democratic Left are on a falling trend, with SYRIZA and Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) to profit from these loses. …

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Greek Parliament Passes Austerity Budget 2013 – ND Expels One MP

Greek Parliament passed austerity Budget 2013 with 167 YES, 128 NO and 4 Abstentions. right after the voting, Antonis Samaras expelled MP Soldatos (Lefkada) from the parliamentary group of Nea Dimocratia for having opposed the budget cuts in Labour and Development Ministries. the number of seats for conservative ND dropped to 125. …

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