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A move to swiftly replace the leadership of the Supreme Court now entangles it in political games. It may also be motivated by the government's anxiety about the future.

Tourism-related investment activity amounted to 5bn euros, of which 1.9bn concerned domestic added value.

Greek Police officers have been highly politicised along party lines for decades, and that can be explained in part by the fact that most often Greek governments pick police brass based on party affiliation.

Even those in SYRIZA who now discern errors had completely accepted one-man rule and the transformation of a putatively left-wing party into one revolving around the leader.

Party leader StavrosTheodorakis recommended that the party not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections but said he will make that decision after consulting with party cadres nationwide.

Now that Tsipras is determined to shift his party’s direction toward Social Democracy and a broad progressive front, he has courted the European Socialists and it appears that the love has not been unrequited.

Running on the “Piraeus Victorious” ticket, Marinakis garnered a whopping 13, 215 votes, nearly six times the number of votes given to the Councilman who placed second.

Konstantina Kouneva became a heroic figure of the trade unionist movement in Greece as a fervent advocate of the rights of cleaning women who provide services through outsourcing.

PM Alexis Tsipras has said that after the 2 June run-offs in prefectural and local elections he will ask President Prokopis to dissolve Parliament and call elections.

Mr. Tsipras has depicted himself as the protector of the poor and vulnerable and his opponent as a monster out of the Book of Revelation which has come to suck the blood of the people.

Tsipras did not budge from Manichaen polital narrative which pits the callous neo-party of New Democracy “with extreme right ministers” against the progressive and caring SYRIZA.

New Democracy is the undisputed victor of the European Parliament elections and its dominance in almost the entire country is complete and leveling.

In the month-long general election campaign, ND and SYRIZA will work toward limiting defections to other parties. ND will call on the electorate to hand it a strong single-party absolute majority in Parliament

The move came immediately after main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis demanded that Tsipras resign and call a general election.

Earlier, the results of an exit poll conducted by four polling companies with 100 percent of the returns in gave New Democracy an 8.5 percentage point lead

Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos in an initial effort at damage control said that result is not the strategic defeat of the government that its opponents had strived for.

The looming question now is whether the PM will call a general election immediately or wait until October when his term ends in an effort to turn the tide.

To some extent the passion for power that the PM has developed and his ambitions are understandable, but Greece’s future cannot be determined or bound by them.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that if Tsipras is defeated in the 26 May European Parliament election 'he should go to Zappeion Hall, tender his resignation and declare that elections will be held in four weeks'.

Mitsotakis’ choice of Thessaloniki to wrap up his campaign was linked to his staunch opposition to the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement, which is extremely unpopular and a vote-getter there.