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The government’s propaganda and its well-known mouthpieces have for some time been preparing the ground for scandal-mongering, with the use of all types of methods in order to annihilate politically those whom they consider enemies.

Party sources say that those efforts will have the exactly opposite result, to rally the base of the Movement for Change, which appears ready for a frontal confrontation with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

'The pre-announced operation to prosecute me does not touch me. History is not written by fleeting occupants of the executive authority," Simitis said, in a thinly veiled reference to PM Alexis Tsipras.

The country’s basic law cannot be used as a field of confrontation and domination by either the Left or the Right.

Many opposition parties, political pundits and analysts maintain that the left-wing SYRIZA-led government has ordered police not to arrest members of the group in most circumstances.

'We tell our friends the necessary words – don’t pressure us and don’t put us in a tight spot. That is the only way that mutual trust can develop,' Erdogan said.

The initial information has led Greek Police to draw comparisons with previous strikes by the Cells of Fire Conspiracy

The links with the powerful of Europe did not impede him, despite the sermons against him, from continuing to loyally serve populist traditions

The report indicates that there were many instances of obvious irregularities and violations and concluded that 'a further investigation of the pricing of diagnostic arthroscopy is required'.

'Few are receiving the unemployment benefit and the stipend for the long-term unemployed [about 12 percent], as they do not meet the preconditions,' said OAED unemployment bureau chief MariaKaramesini.

'Mr. Tsipras’ beloved minister reached the point of making ‘little jokes’ even about the 99 dead people in Mati,' ND said in a statement.

Representatives of “the new” in politics, who are supposedly fighting for renewal in the country’s political life, come from the mould of the most vulgar and detrimental old-party politics that the country has seen in over forty years.

'We managed to hammer out the biggest development plan in the history of Piraeus, securing over 111mn euros in EU funding,' said Moralis.

'The problem of unemployment cannot be solved with civil service appointments, but rather through investments and good private sector jobs., New Democracy's leader said.

The group has drawn the negative attention and bewilderment of the international press, most recently in an 8 November report by The Economist, entitled “Licensed anarchy? How a group of Athens troublemakers goes unpunished”.

With the well-known method of robbing Peter to pay Paul, Mr. Tsipras is now playing in a new performance, with the announcement that he is planning the hiring of 10,000 more civil servants

Katsifas was shot dead on a bare mountain, surrounded by hooded Albanian Special Forces who were brought in from Tirana, accompanied by a police helicopter.

“The extensive reforms Greece has carried out have laid the ground for a sustainable recovery. This must be nurtured and maintained to enable the Greek people to reap the benefits of their efforts and sacrifices,” Moscovici said.

'Commitment to reforms is key to further growth. The current forecast rests on an assumption of no policy change for fiscal policy in 2019 and 2020. This is projected to result in a primary surplus of 3.9% of GDP (ESM programme definition).'

The important lesson of these elections is that there are social forces which can intervene to change the rules of the game and defend the values of pluralism and democracy.