Bogdanos has fervently and vociferously pushed a tough law and order agenda, along with vitriolic attacks on the left in general, and main opposition SYRIZA in particular.
Waves of rage and indignation emerged from the burnt forests. The residents, as usually occurs after natural disasters, in their desperation sought to apportion responsibility.
Candidates for the leadership are hammering out their strategies, both in public and behind the scenes. KINAL leader Fofi Gennimata has the first word and the key to developments.
Yesterday’s bombshell charges lodged by former Syriza justice minister Stavros Kontonis have stirred a political maelstrom within Syriza but their significance goes far beyond the limits of an internal party issue.
'New Democracy excluded them [Golden Dawn] from state funding and refused to legitimise their presence even in simple, ceremonial events,' the PM said.
The main opposition party is sailing on the same course that brought its defeat and is thus demonstrating that it cannot or does not know how to change course.
After his defeat in the July, 2019, general election Alexis Tsipras remains almost politically blind. He seems unable to absorb the shock of defeat and to interpret its causes.
The prime minister was judged for his leadership abilities and won the true respect of the majority of the citizenry when he was confronted with singular and unforeseen crises.
Former alternate justice minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos has been accused by top prosecutors of raw interventions in their work and of pressuring them to file charges against former ND and Pasok ministers and two PMs.
In the government's insurance system bill employee contributions which impact on competitiveness remain unchanged, in contrast to those of freelance professionals.
In the case of Mr. Tsipras’ government which came to power in 2015 in the midst of a great economic crisis things were worse.
The fate of the new government will be judged by the boldness, clarity, and aims of new draft legislation and by its confirmation of the “alternate plan” for which the Greek people opted in the 7 July general election.
Political struggles are desirable and necessary, but political culture is also something that has been gained.
The government is pledging to grant greater autonomy to top state functionaries to limit the need for the signatures of countless bureaucrats.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his government must send the message that the country is changing for the better in his second address to Parliament before receiving a vote of confidence. Mitsotakis also welcomed the low-key rhetoric of the opposition as a sign of a new, more moderate political culture. “The country is acquiring […]
The government’s programme was approved by all 158 New Democracy MPs in the Parliament that was elected on 7 July.
'I was impressed by the shift from invective and shrieks towards an institutional placidity on the part of New Democracy,' Tsipras declared.
Incoming Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was well prepared. He had picked his ministers and associates from a pool comprised of both politicians and technocrats.
Tasoulas was a protégé of the late Evangelos Averoff (whose private secretary he was from 1981-1989), a broadly respected patrician in the ranks of Greek conservatism.
45 percent of respondents trust the new government and 54 percent distrust it, but 61 percent want the government to serve out its four-year term