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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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Projected seat distribution on the basis of revised exit poll. Eight parties in the Greek Parliament, three of them far-right. MeRA25 of Yanis Varoufakis did not pass the 3% threshold and stays out of the Parliament. Abstention is at 48%! Seats projection ND 157 SYRIZA 47 PASOK 33 KKE 20 …

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Deputy Development and Investment Minister Nikos Papathanassis announced on Sunday evening the rules under which that cafes, bars and restaurants will open again during the 4. phase of lockdown easing on May 25, 2020. General rules are that facilities are allowed to open both outdoors or indoor spaces under certain …

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By 99.84% of the votes counted, the results of the general elections on 7. July 2019 bring six political parties in the Greek Parliament with the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn to be definitely out. Two new parties enter the Parliament: Elliniki Lysi (Greek Solution) of far-right Kyriakos Velopoulos MeRA25 of anti-memorandum …

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21,478 ballot centers across Greece closed at 7 o’ clock Sunday afternoon, July 7th 2019. Millions of Greeks were called to ballot boxes and general elections. All public opinion polls showed a victory for main opposition party, conservative New Democracy. Even though there is possibility that the closing deadline is …

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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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The number of independent lawmakers in Greek parliament rose to 23 after Vasilis Oikonomou resigned from Democratic Left on Friday. Τhe independent lawmakers build together the fourth power group in the Greek Parliament even if  some of them have formed the lose fraction of “Independent Democrats” consisting of 13 MP’s. …

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PM Samaras’ party Nea Dimokratia needed some forty minutes to expel Vyron Polidoras from the party after the former minister voted No to “unified property tax” bill. Samaras’ coalition government has now only 153 seats in the parliament of 300, with majority needed to pass laws being 151. Nea Dimokratia: …

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Greece’s three-party coalition government lost one more seat, when MP Christos Aidonis resigned from PASOK party on Thursday morning. According to his resignation letter, the MP said he resigned from socialist PASOK because of the handling of Lagarde list by leader Evangelos Venizelos. With Aidonis resignation, the number of seats fro …

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Junior coalition government partner Democratic Left (DIMAR) expelled Monday MPs Odyseas Voudouris and Paris Moutsinas because “they have been permanently disagreeing with the official positions of the party” DIMAR said in a statement. Last week, Voudouris said in an interview, that he would call on a party congress where he …

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  Greek Elections 2012 – Here are the final results according  to Interior Ministry and voting processing system Singular Logic. The results refer to 100.oo% counting of the votes. From the 9,949,401 registered voters only 65,10% casted their votes. This has to do also with the fact the voters’ lists include those living abroad, …

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Greece’s voters seem divided to an extreme. To such extreme that they may push ten political parties in the Greek parliament with their votes. According to latest public survey, conducted by Marc for private Alpha TV, conservative Nea Dimokratia remains first party in the choice of voters however it is …

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