Democratic Left

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...

According to the second installment of Public Issue's survey of the Greek electorate, SYRIZA is the political party favored by most Greeks today, having increased its lead over rival New Democracy by 13 percentage points. The first part of the...

Little more than four years after winning the Prime Minister's office with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialists who are partners in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservative government are on the edge of extinction with...

Setting aside their political differences, Greece's bitterly-divided parties have condemned what was called a terrorist act, the sending of bullets in the mail to the country’s central banker and a prominent journalist. Central Bank Governor Giorgos Provopoulos received an envelope...

There's good news and bad news for Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA.) The bad news was the licking the party took when its motion for a vote of no-confidence in the government of...

As expected, as the government controls a bare majority of Parliament, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' Conservative-led coalition government won't have to face the prospect of new elections after lawmakers, by a margin of 153-124 voted against a motion...

The order by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader who convinced his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos to drop his objections to a Nov. 7 dawn riot police raid to oust former...

The Greek Parliament approved early Wednesday, an amendment that suspends state funding to any party linked with violence. With 235 votes in favor out of 269 MP's present during the roll call vote, which started shortly before midnight, the...

Former Prime Minister and PASOK leader Costas Simitis gave his backing on Tuesday to an initiative to create a new center-left alliance, as ekathimerini reports. Costas Simitis wasn’t among the 58 members who signed the relevant declaration made public on...

A new poll carried out by Pulse, gave a 1.5 percent lead to SYRIZA against New Democracy as far as voting intention is concerned. The Pulse poll will be published by the newspaper To Pontiki on Thursday, September 12. When...