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Votes of the Second Unsuccessful Greek Presidential Ballot

The Greek Parliament failed to elect a new President of the Hellenic Republic in the second consecutive ballot. Stavros Dimas, the only candidate for the Greek Presidency, nominated by the coalition government partners, New Democracy and PASOK, and Greek...

SYRIZA, ANEL, DIMAR Reject Greek PM Proposals

In an announcement released on Sunday evening, main opposition SYRIZA rejected Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ public call for consensus and his proposal to broaden the government’s composition until the next national elections, to take place by the end...

Bribery Case Decision Tomorrow, Greek MP Threatens to Counter-Sue Prime Minister

The prosecution will decide tomorrow whether Giorgos Apostopoulos attempted to bribe Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Pavlos Chaikalis to vote in favor of the nominee in the Presidential election. According to iefimerida.gr, prosecutors Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Isidoros Doghiakos have already reached...

Greek PM Offers General Elections in 2015 After Bailout Talks are Completed

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras addressed the Greek people and described the risks involved if the country is dragged to snap elections. However, he compromised to go to elections at the end of 2015 if parliament elects a new President...

SYRIZA Leader Tsipras Sternly Attacks Greek PM Samaras

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on Sunday sternly attacked Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yannis Stournaras at his address to his party's meeting in Alexandroupolis, northern Greece. Tsipras called Samaras "Prime Minister of the cafe,"...

Greek PM Samaras to Take Legal Action Against Bribery Allegations in Presidential Vote

The Greek Prime Minister’s office announced on Friday night that Antonis Samaras would be taking legal action against Independent Greeks (ANEL) after its leader, Panos Kammenos, and MP Pavlos Chaikalis alleged that there was an attempt to bribe the latter so...

Former Greek PM Mitsotakis: 'The Elections Will Take Place at a Time of Disarray'

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias met with New Democracy honorary President and Former Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. The two men discussed Greece’s current situation and Mitsotakis expressed his concern about the difficult phase the country is going through. Over the last few days, Mitsotakis...

Independent Greeks Hold Press Conference Over Alleged Bribery Attempt

Independent Greeks (ANEL) President Panos Kammenos held a press conference to talk in depth about the alleged attempted bribery of ANEL MP Pavlos Chaikalis. Kammenos said that Chaikalis had informed him of the incident but the two men decided not to...

Behind the Scenes of the Greek Presidential Election

A total of 160 positive and 135 negative votes managed to attract the nomination of Stavros Dimas in the first open vote for the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic held at 7:30 pm in the Greek Parliament. According to article...

New Poll: Greek Main Opposition SYRIZA Leads Over New Democracy by 4.8%

Greece's main opposition SYRIZA has a 4.8% lead over ruling New Democracy (ND) according to an "Alco" opinion poll to be published on Thursday, December 11, in Greek newspaper "Pontiki." SYRIZA collected 28% of the votes and ND 23.2%. Extreme-right Golden Dawn...