Greece

Key issues concerning expatriate Greeks were the focus of the meeting of SAE Secretary Dr. Olga Sarantopoulos with the President of the Democratic Left Fotis Kouvelis. During the meeting, Mr. Kouvelis emphasized the main points of the policy of his...

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias received Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis earlier today, for the last of a series of meetings he held with political leaders that began yesterday with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and main...

  Fotis Kouvelis was re-elected president of Democratic Left (DIMAR) at the party's congress on Sunday with 68.34% of the vote, receiving 503 out of a total of 745 votes. Rival candidate Dimitris Loukas received 155 votes or 21.01% of votes...

Greece 's Democratic Left (DIMAR) lawmakers said they won't accept the resignation of party leader Fotis Kouvelis, even though it finished with a disastrous 1.2 percent and dead last among major Greek parties in the May 25 European Parliament...

After his party's abysmal showing in European Parliament elections - finishing last among major parties with 1.2 percent of the vote - Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis has resigned under pressure from unhappy lawmakers. DIMAR failed to elect a...

Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis said he won't return to the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives. The administration was left with just the fading PASOK Socialists as a partner when Kouvelis yanked DIMAR...

Plans by former Greek prime minister and PASOK party leader George Papandreou to appear at an Athens book launch next Monday alongside Fotis Kouvelis, the leader of the Democratic Left (DIMAR) party who quit the government coalition of New Democracy and...

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives in disarray over the Athens' Mayor's race - officially supporting one of its lawmakers as a candidate and snubbing another - who had the office - incumbent George Kaminis has picked up the...

With his party on the verge of extinction, Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis is looking to hook up with a former PASOK Socialist minister, Andreas Loverdos, whose own new party Pact for a New Greece, doesn't even register...

After bringing his party to the brink of ruin, Fotis Kouvelis has been re-elected leader of the fast-disappearing Democratic Left (DIMAR) that polls show might not make it into Parliament in the next polls. Kouvelis was chosen again even though...

The accusations of the Greek coalition Government that SYRIZA’s leader, Alexis Tsipras, tried to encourage an “apostasy” of coalition MPs who are disgruntled with the current policy, are changing the rules of the current political scene.  The president of...

Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis, who took his party out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' previous coalition government, said he walked out because the Premier and PASOK Socialist leader had conspired to set up an administration without him and...

According to the leader of  the DIMAR party, Fotis Kouvelis, political leaders Samaras and Venizelos had already talked before the three of them held their meeting late last month. "If Mr. Venizelos said that he would do everything DIMAR does,...

A week after his party pulled out of the ruling coalition following a dispute over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s unilateral decision to close down state broadcaster ERT, Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis lashed out at his former partners in...

Democratic Left (DIMAR) chief Fotis Kouvelis on June 21 said that he is yanking his tiny group from the uneasy Greek coalition led by Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who said he will now rule...