SYRIZA

Main opposition conservative New Democracy has scored its greatest victory ever in regional and municipal elections, winning 11 of the country's 12 prefectures

Within three years, Tsipras led a very small party to become one of the country’s top two parties, with a good shot at gaining power.

Any investment had to pass multiple hurdles to gain initial approval. Then it was blocked by either by the bureaucracy or incompetent political management.

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.

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.