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PASOK Conference Concludes Works; Gennimata Remains President

The two-day works of the conference of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement - PASOK party were concluded on Sunday afternoon in Athens, Greece. The historic center-left party, that governed Greece for more than 25 years since its foundation in 1974, held...

KINAL Leader Gennimata at Party Convention: ''We Represent Change''

The Leader of the ''Movement for Change'' (KINAL) party said that her social and democratic party represents a change in Greece. Speaking in front of 4,500 party members and congressmen at the Second Party Convention in Athens, Gennimata outlined the...

New Center-Left Coalition Party Elects PASOK Leader Fofi Gennimata

  The new Greek center-left party elected politician Fofi Gennimata on Sunday to lead a new alliance, hoping to win back voters disillusioned after seven years of crisis and boost their popularity as the country appears more polarized than ever. The...

Fofi Gennimata Closes in on Leadership of New Centre-Left Party in Greece

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...

Gennimata Announces Emergency PASOK Congress in September

An extraordinary PASOK Congress is going to take place shortly announced PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Tuesday at the Democratic Alliance parliamentary group meeting. The congress is expected to elect the members of PASOK’s main bodies, i.e. the central committee,...

PASOK Still has Open Political and Ideological Fronts with the Right, Says PASOK Leader Gennimata

Democratic Alliance and PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Sunday reiterated her invitation to all members of the area to rally with the Democratic Alliance, in her address to the PASOK committee. We seek to become the big, the progressive majority wave...

PASOK Elects Fofi Gennimata as 5th Party President

Fofi Gennimata was elected as the 5th PASOK President with 51% of the votes. The election took place during the party's 10th conference. On Sunday morning, June 14, party members and friends cast their votes in order to determine who...

Fofi Gennimata Appointed New PASOK Spokesperson

The new President of PASOK, Eleftherios Venizelos, appointed today Fofi Gennimata as the new spokesperson of the party. Mrs. Gennimata is the first choice of Venizelos to staff the party after his election last Sunday. The choice of Mrs. Gennimata...

25-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Victim of Covid-19 in Greece

A 25-year-old man named Thodoris Pavlidis, from Serres, a city in northern Greece, passed away after suffering with Covid-19 on Monday. His tragic death makes him the youngest person to die with the virus in Greece since the start...

PM Mitsotakis Says New ICU Beds are "Crucial" as Country Nears Maximum Capacity

"The next months will be crucial and we are very well aware that if we do not take care the health system will come under great pressure," stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, at a ceremony marking the...

Greek Government Honors Marfin Bank Firebombing Victims

The Greek government on Saturday honored the victims of the Marfin Bank firebombing in May 2010 by placing a plaque on the site of the tragic incident. Present at the ceremony were relatives of the victims, President of the Republic...

Wide Consensus Foreseen as Opposition Parties Support First Female Greek President

It was announced on Thursday that the first Parliamentary vote to elect the next Greek President will take place on Wednesday, January 22. According to the recently-amended Greek Constitution, the first vote requires a 2/3 majority for a candidate to...

Greek Prime Minister Briefs Opposition Leaders on US Visit

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday briefed political party leaders on this week's visit to the US and his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Mitsotakis stressed the need for national unity in view of developments on...

Athens Refutes Turkish Claims that Greece ''Systematically Annihilated Turks and Muslims''

Alexandros Gennimatas, the spokesperson for the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement on Friday in response to the provocative Turkish allegations against Greece published on Thursday. ''Turkey’s insistence on distorting history is unbecoming of a modern state,'' Gennimatas...

Greek PM Mitsotakis to Meet With Opposition Leaders Ahead of Crucial Diaspora Vote Bill

The office of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has contacted the leaders of each parliamentary party in order to arrange face-to-face meetings this week to discuss the specifics of the upcoming bill regarding the Greek Diaspora vote. The Greek government has...