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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The finance minister said that the worst thing that the government did was to cut pensions, “although we tried to make it less painful than the right-wing would have”.
The Piraeus City Council candidate and Olympiacos FC leader said that at the most critical juncture in Greece’s recent history the country had the ill fortune to be led by “uneducated kids who negotiated the country’s future”.
No country – and especially Greece – can on its own ensure better conditions than those created by the EU for its citizens and economy in the hugely competitive world in which we live.
Main opposition New Democracy (among other parties) has long maintained that there are links between SYRIZA and anarchist groups.
Tsipras first threw down the gauntlet in Parliament and today SYRIZA spokesperson Rania Svigou reissued the invitation in a letter to New Democracy spokesperson Maria Zacharaki.
The poll shows that in the 13 prefectures of the region of Macedonia SYRIZA is trailing New Democracy by a whopping 14.3 percentage points, largely due to the hugely unpopular Prespa Agreement.
SYRIZA, which until recently led a coalition government with the far right Independent Greeks as the junior partner, just discovered the utility of a “progressive alliance”.
In cases of negligent homicide with many victims the ten-year maximum sentence will be reduced to five years. When someone makes Molotov cocktails to commit arson or even murders (as occurred at Marfin Bank during a protest march), the culprit will be charged with a misdemeanor
In the first post-war decades PPC operated as a model of an efficient and profitable enterprise. It built large electricity production plants, exploited domestic lignite deposits, and built impressive hydroelectric plants.
MPs and party cadres are anxiously watching Tsipras’ feverish efforts to turn the tables by pledging everything to the very middle class voters whom he has brought to their knees through over-taxation.
Greece’s left-wing government, which constantly attacks neo-liberalism, with its excesses has reached the point of implementing an absolutely restrictive and neo-liberal agenda
Georgiadis was one of ten politicians investigated by the judiciary in the context of a probe of the Novartis scandal after a parliamentary majority lifted their immunity and sent their case back to the judiciary.
The post which the nurse was fire for sharing read: 'I salute my left-wing and “progressive” Chania [Crete, Polakis old electoral district] citizens who chose an uneducated little fascist to represent them in Parliament.'
When the PM himself has raised the banner of slander, dragging opponents through the mud, and character assassination, why should any minister hesitate to do the same and worse?