New Democracy

Three polls on Friday May 23, ahead of Greece's Sunday European Parliament election vote, offer but variations on a theme: a SYRIZA lead. An ongoing GPO poll for the Greek website Newsit gives SYRIZA a 1% lead over New Democracy, with definitive results to be published...

  Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said Greece may abolish a hated “solidarity tax” next year but said big tax cheats are being allowed to get away while those who owe less are being hounded to pay up. The solidarity tax was...

On the eve of critical elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras slugged it out, saying the country's future is at stake. In...

Locked in a tight race with the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in the May 25 European Parliament elections and the run-off round of balloting for Greek municipalities, major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos’ characterization of protesters upset with bond losses he imposed on them as “fascist-like,” drew a sharp rebuke from the right-wing Independent Greeks party ahead of the May 25 elections for Greek municipalities and the...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy Conservatives face a twin elections test on May 25, stepped up his verbal assaults on the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and railed against its supporters. New Democracy is being pressed hard by the...

Greek Former Prime Minister and previous New Democracy Conservative leader Costas Karamanlis, who disappeared from the political scene after losing the 2009 elections, has shown his face again at the behest of Greece 's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to...

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...

Battle lines are being drawn for the Sunday, May 25 second round of Greek local elections, and for the European Parliament, which will mostly pit Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives against the major opposition Coalition of the...

Suppose they gave an election and nobody came? That's almost what it was like in the first round of Greek municipal elections on May 18 when voters, apparently turned off by politics, bickering, blame games, finger pointing and crushing...