Politics

Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilincaroglu in the country’s runoff election on Sunday.

The caretaker government in Greece, which will lead the country until a new election takes place in late June, was officially sworn in on Friday during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace. Ioannis Sarmas, the president of the Court of...

Former US Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hilary Clinton has backed Eleni Kounalakis in her campaign for the California governorship. The Greek American politician previously ran to become the governor of California back in 2018. She did not attain...

Eva Kaili, a key suspect in the Qatargate scandal which has rocked the European Parliament, was freed from house arrest on Thursday. The Greek former MEP and vice president of the European Parliament was charged with participation in a criminal...

Greeks living abroad who voted in the parliamentary elections on Saturday mirrored the choice of their compatriots in Greece as far as the first two parties are concerned. These were the first elections in which Greeks living abroad could exercise...

The President of Greece Katerina Sakallaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas a senior judge as caretaker prime minister until new elections take place probably on June 25. Sarmas, president of the Court of Audit, was appointed after the meeting with five major...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded on Tuesday to the video purportedly showing the forced expulsion of migrants at sea from Greek territory calling the incident unacceptable and confirming an ongoing investigation. The video, presented by The New York Times,...

SYRIZA, the party that swept to power during the turbulent years of the Greek debt crisis, is in disarray after the election results on Sunday. The party led by former PM Alexis Tsipras has seen its share of the vote...

The EU has called on Greece to open an independent inquiry into video footage that emerged purportedly showing the forced expulsion of migrants at sea from Greek territory. The video footage was captured by an Austrian activist on the Greek...

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, Pericles must be the father of democracy.

PM of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis is speeding up the process to win an outright victory in the second elections likely to be held on June 25 by skipping his constitutional right to explore the possibility of forming a coalition...

Greece's PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis achieved a remarkable victory in Sunday's Parliamentary elections as his New Democracy (ND) party won by more than 20 percentage points against the main opposition SYRIZA. However, due to the electoral system of proportional representation, he...

Five people were arrested on Saturday evening in Karditsa, central Greece, suspected of attempted election fraud. Among the suspects were three associates of the opposition SYRIZA party candidate, George Vaiopoulos. In their car, police discovered 197 forged identity cards as well...

Greek party leaders voted in the elections on Sunday sending divergent messages on the state of the nation and its future. A joint exit poll conducted by six polling agencies will be published as soon as voting concludes at 19:00...

The history of elections in modern Greece began in 1833, with the first King of Greece, Otto of Bavaria, introducing the paper ballot. The occasion was the municipal elections for the Argolis-Corinth prefecture in July of 1834. The concept of...