Fotis Kouvelis

After his party's abysmal showing in European Parliament elections - finishing last among major parties with 1.2 percent of the vote - Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis has resigned under pressure from unhappy lawmakers. DIMAR failed to elect a...

Following his coalition's defeat in European Parliament elections to the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is mulling yet another rejiggering of his Cabinet and reportedly is even considering whether to ask other...

Greece's opposition parties Independent Greeks and DIMAR are trying to determine the causes of their diminished electoral appeal, in the aftermath of Sunday's European Parliament elections. Independent Greeks look for answers The opposition Independent Greeks party parliamentary group is to convene on...

Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis said he won't return to the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives. The administration was left with just the fading PASOK Socialists as a partner when Kouvelis yanked DIMAR...

Essentially declaring his once-dominant party dead, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos says it will survive the critical May elections for the European Parliament and Greek municipalities although it has had to attach itself to a new center-left political group...

"What's all the fuss?" was former prime minister George Papandreou's stance when he appeared at a book launch for a member of the Democratic Left (DIMAR) who had left his PASOK Socialists. Papandreou, the former head of PASOK, had been...

Plans by former Greek prime minister and PASOK party leader George Papandreou to appear at an Athens book launch next Monday alongside Fotis Kouvelis, the leader of the Democratic Left (DIMAR) party who quit the government coalition of New Democracy and...

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives in disarray over the Athens' Mayor's race - officially supporting one of its lawmakers as a candidate and snubbing another - who had the office - incumbent George Kaminis has picked up the...

After bringing his party to the brink of ruin, Fotis Kouvelis has been re-elected leader of the fast-disappearing Democratic Left (DIMAR) that polls show might not make it into Parliament in the next polls. Kouvelis was chosen again even though...

With their parties bordering on extinction, the leaders of the PASOK Socialists and the Democratic Left (DIMAR) face challenges from members upset they aren't embracing a new center-left movement, The 58 Initiative, that wants Greece's disparate left to form...