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SYRIZA Leader Tsipras Urges Greeks To Get Rid Of Their 'Hated Regime'

"Against us is the old political system that pushed the country into a tragedy, which built the regime that led to the bailouts. We want to demolish this regime," Greece's former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated at a gathering of...

New Greek Poll Shows New Democracy Trailing SYRIZA by 1%

With the Greek snap elections set for September 20, a new opinion poll indicates changes in the structure of the next Greek Parliament. SYRIZA leads New Democracy by just 1%, as the two parties garner 22.2% and 21.2% of the intended Greek vote...

German Press on Greek Elections: Tsipras' Win Uncertain

Several reports from the German press see Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA going to the September 20 snap elections weakened and his victory uncertain. "SYRIZA pragmatists are in a difficult situation" says financial newspaper Handelsblatt. "Alexis Tsipras has lost his fighter...

Polls in Greece Show SYRIZA's Lead Shrinking

With the undecided reaching 25.5 percent, the latest opinion poll on intention to vote shows that the difference between SYRIZA and New Democracy is shrinking. According to a recent survey conducted by ProRata for Efimerida ton Syntakton daily published on...

Varoufakis: Tsipras Keeps Pushing the Rock Like Sisyphus

Controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that "Alexis Tsipras keeps pushing the rock of austerity like Sisyphus" and the upcoming "election campaign will be sad and fruitless." Varoufakis spoke at Australia's ABC radio about Greece's upcoming elections, his stint...

Tsipras' Former Party Fellows Criticize His First Campaign Interview

Popular Unity chief Panagiotis Lafazanis and former House speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou criticized departing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the broadcast of his first election campaign interview. Lafazanis issued a written statement in which he accuses Tsipras of "committing to implement...

Greek PM Tsipras: I Will Not Cooperate with New Democracy After the Elections

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave his first interview following his resignation and spoke on his seven-month term at the country's helm. Tsipras resigned last Thursday following more than month of speculation as dissenters within his SYRIZA party kept growing over the adoption of...

Fifty-three Left Platform Members Resign from SYRIZA Central Committee

Fifty-three members of SYRIZA's Central Committee, most of them affiliated with Panagiotis Lafazanis' Left Platform, resigned on Wednesday. In a letter, they stressed that they were unable to serve the new Memorandum signed by Greece, which they said delivered...

French Newspaper Analyzes Greek PM's Position Within SYRIZA

As Greeks prepare to head to the polls for the third time in nine months, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is the subject of an article in the Wednesday edition of French newspaper Liberation. In his profile of Tsipras, journalist Jean Quatremer...

Former Greece's House Speaker to Start New Party

Greece's controversial former house speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou is ready to start a new party, according to a report in Efimerida ton Syntakton daily. The report says that Konstantopoulou is expecting the official disbandment of the present parliament and election announcement...