Greece

The Movement for Change (MFC) will have an autonomous political role towards SYRIZA and New Democracy, PASOK leader and interim chair of the new party said in a speech at the MFC's founding congress on Friday. Fofi Gennimata said the...

Governing SYRIZA has marginally closed the gap from opposition New Democracy (ND) in a new poll by Prorata group. The poll published in Efimerida ton Syntakton shows that ND is leading with 33% and SYRIZA follows with 24.5%. The most impressive...

The new centre-left political coalition consisting of PASOK socialists, Potami centrists and various small social-democratic entities is unveiling its name in the coming days. According to reports, the new name will be "Kinima Allagis" (Movement of Change), a reference to...

After Sunday's elections, Fofi Gennimata, the leader of Greece’s socialists PASOK party, is in a commanding position to lead the new centre-left party. With more than half of the ballots counted, Gennimata leads with 44.5% of the vote, followed in second...

Thousands of Greeks are expected to go the polls on Sunday to elect a leader for the new party of the centre/ centre-left. Nine candidates are running to lead the new party which politically hopes to fill the void between...

Ten candidates have registered for the election for the leadership of the centre-left in Greece as the deadline expired on Friday evening. The first round of elections is set to be held on November 5, while a runoff vote has...

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has announced his intention to run for the leadership of the centre-left coalition party, Democratic Alignment, an attempt to gather all socialist-leaning parties under one coalition umbrella. With procedural deadlines still a little sketchy, the Athens...

The temporary alliance between PASOK and three other small center-left movements, named “Olive Tree”, has published its candidates for May’s European Parliament elections. Among the candidates are current MPs and MEPs such as Katerina Batzeli and Sylvana Rapti, high-profile PASOK members such...

July 8, 2019 finds Greece turning the page, as the political landscape changed radically after the results of Sunday's election. Greece leaves four and a half years of leftist rule behind. The Alexis Tsipras government promised change and the end...

A new poll released on Thursday gives opposition New Democracy a 9.5 percent lead over governing SYRIZA. The poll was conducted by Pulse for Skai television between September 16-18. It shows New Democracy at 31.5 percent, compared to 22 percent for...

Greece's main opposition New Democracy party is leading governing SYRIZA by 4.4 percent in a survey by pollsters Kapa Research. The gap between the two largest parties is considerably narrower that most other surveys have shown recently. According to the Kapa...

Opposition New Democracy (ND) maintains a steady lead over governing SYRIZA according to a new poll by Metron Analysis for Sunday Vima newspaper. The survey shows that ND gets 34.9 percent of the voting intentions, with SYRIZA following almost 10...

Greece's governing SYRIZA party has slightly closed the gap on the main opposition New Democracy in the latest poll by Public Issue released on Thursday -- the third anniversary of SYRIZA coming to power. However, New Democracy maintains a huge...

A massive protest against the use of the word Macedonia by FYROM is taking place at the center of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city.

Conservative New Democracy main opposition party retains a double-digit lead over governing SYRIZA, while a vast majority of Greeks rejects the use of the term "Macedonia" in any new FYROM name, says a new poll by Metron Analysis published...