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Greek Elections: Party Leaders Try to Woo Undecided Voters

  KKE leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas speaks at the party's election rally at Syntagma Square Three days before Sunday's election, and party leaders try to fish from the pool of undecided voters while preaching to the converted. SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras spoke...

Greek Elections: Polls Divided Between SYRIZA-New Democracy

Two new opinion polls published on Thursday show that the close race between SYRIZA and New Democracy continues as one survey shows the leftist party leading by 0.6 points while another shows New Democracy ahead by 0.5 percent. A survey...

Greek Elections: New Democracy Slightly Ahead, SYRIZA Loses Young Vote

The close race in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's elections continues, with a new survey showing conservative New Democracy leading over leftist SYRIZA by half a percentage point. The new poll by Pulse for Action 24 television, was conducted after...

Greek Elections: Parties Start Major Pre-Election Rallies in Athens

Popular Unity and the PASOK-DIMAR alliance started the major pre-election rallies in the Greek capital on Tuesday evening. Less than eight months after the party campaigns that culminated in the January 25 election, the people of Athens are gathering again...

SYRIZA Minister Allegedly Involved in €3.9 Million Construction Scandal

SYRIZA candidate and former minister of state Alekos Flambouraris is allegedly involved in a 3.9-million-euro construction scandal, according to a protothema.gr report. As of 2010, Flambouraris is the owner of 50 percent of construction company DIATMISI ATE which he claimed...

Greek Elections: Leading Party Chiefs Debate Leaves Undecided Voters None the Wiser

The debate between SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy president Vangelis Meimarakis was as predictable as heat in July and ended in a draw because both parties had very little of substance to say. At least, the two opponents...

Greek Election Polls: SYRIZA Slightly Leading

SYRIZA and New Democracy are going head to head in the upcoming Greel election according to five recent polls published on Greek Sunday newspapers. The difference of the two partied is less than one percent in all the polls. A poll...

'I will be Prime Minister,' ND Leader Meimarakis Says at TIF

Speaking at the 80th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Sunday, New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis signalled his party's willingness to collaborate with the other political forces after the September 20 elections. "Clearly I will be prime minister and clearly I...

New Opinion Poll Shows Greek Elections Could Be Too Close to Call

An opinion poll conducted by the University of Macedonia for SKAI TV network between September 9 and September 11 added to the uncertainty of the September 20 Greek election results. SYRIZA leads the poll, having garnered 28.5% of the intended vote, while New...

Greek MEP Sakorafa Joins List of Lawmakers Abandoning SYRIZA

European Parliament Member Sofia Sakorafa is the lastest SYRIZA member to leave the party after former prime minister Alexis Tsipras signed Greece's third bailout memorandum. Sakorafa is the second SYRIZA MEP who abandons the party, after Nikos Chountis, who has...