Dimitris Koutsoumpas
Greece
Greek Political Party Leaders Respond to Greek Election Results
SYRIZA emerged as the victorious political party in the Greek elections on Sunday night with 35.5% of the Greek vote and Greece's political party leaders reacted to the result.
New Democracy President Evangelos Meimarakis congratulated SYRIZA for their victory during Sunday. The centre-right...
Economy
Protests During First Day of Thessaloniki International Fair
Saturday September 5 marks the first day of this year's Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) -- one of Greece's biggest commercial exhibits -- where a number of organizations demonstrated on the streets of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece.
In the early evening three different groups began...
Greece
Greek Political Parties React to Snap Elections
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' resignation and subsequent proclamation of snap elections in Greece on Thursday evening, prompted the reaction of the Greek political parties, even before the prime minister's official statement.
ANEL
Prior to Tsipras' proclamation, the Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, Tsipras'...
Economy
Opinion Poll: Greeks in Support of SYRIZA Govt But Afraid of Grexit
The newly elected SYRIZA – Independent Greeks (ANEL) coalition government has managed to attract the Greek public opinion to its side in the first two months since it took office. According to a new opinion poll conducted by the University...
Greece
Greek Communist Party Disapproves Presidential Candidate
The Greek Communist Party (KKE) criticized the choice of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to propose Prokopis Pavlopoulos for President of the Hellenic Republic and announced that KKE MPs will vote "present" in tomorrow's vote.
The official announcement issued from KKE headquarters underlined...
Australia
KKE in Favor of Greeks Abroad Voting
KKE, Greece’s Communist Party, is in favor of giving the Greeks of Diaspora the possibility to vote, but it's under certain conditions.
This, among others, was the statement of Dimitris Koutsoumpas, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece...
Greece
Dimitris Koutsoumpas New Greek Communist Chief
After the conclusion of the works by the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) the Central Committee published the following statement:
"The works of the 19th Congress of the KKE have been concluded with the election of...