PM Alexis Tsipras

That in 2015 17bn euros in state funds were lost in bank recaps and that non-performing loans burgeoned are obviously mere details for the PM.

'The critical preparations regarding the exploitation of our energy wealth and exercising our sovereign rights have not been viewed in a happenstance manner. They [Athens’ actions] are the result of years of foreign policy planning

Despite the efforts to persuade voters that the result of European elections is reversible (ND won by a 9.3 percentage point margin), a defeatist climate is looming over the government camp.

New Democracy, which enjoys a hefty lead in the polls, has rejected SYRIZA’s call for a second, one-on-one debate between Tsipras and Mitsotakis.

To ensure a better future for the country and its citizenry one needs a growth dynamic and not the distribution of paltry benefits.

Though a solid majority has already decided who they feel is best suited to manage the country’s future, the next few weeks will be decisive in determining the power balances in the next Parliament.

The political favours passed in Parliament during the last days of the Tsipras administration brutally wounded democracy and shook the trust of the people.

Τhe cabinet nominated Eirini Kalou as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), and Dimitra Kokotini as Chief Prosecutor.

For many, the effort to create a new narrative and disseminate it within a month - so as to stem a mass defection from a party widely expected to be annihilated in a New Democracy landslide - is simply unfeasible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.