Greece

The Greek Parliament was officially dissolved on Tuesday evening ahead of the national elections called by PM Alexis Tsipras after his party's devastating defeat in last month's European elections. A decree from President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was placed outside the main...

Pushing the date of general elections earlier than had been planned is a matter of sensitivity towards democracy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, confirming that snap elections will be held on July 7. Speaking to state broadcaster ERT,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged his SYRIZA party on Monday to regroup and heed the message of voters ahead of snap national elections he called after his ruling SYRIZA party suffered a resounding defeat in the European and...

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called for snap elections after his SYRIZA party was completely routed in the European and local elections held on Sunday. Tsipras said that he will request the Greek President to dissolve the Greek parliament immediately after...

Two out of three Greek citizens are in favor of snap elections, according to a survey by polling company Marc on behalf of Proto Thema, which was released on Wednesday. Following the pullout of the government's junior partner, the ANEL...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of the main opposition, New Democracy, is once again calling for snap elections, citing what he considers to be the many shortcomings of the Tsipras government. Mitsotakis commented on Tuesday about the Prime Minister's televised address...

MRB conducted a poll for Real News which found that 63 percent of Greeks feel that early elections are on their way in 2017. The public opinion poll showed how the majority of the public are filled with worry, discontent and other negative...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is acting strangely in the past few weeks. Ever since negotiations for the second review of the bailout program stalled, he started acting like the defiant leftist politician he was before he was first...

The Greek government is disputing recent opinion polls showing people's dissatisfaction with the administration and presented cases of previous polls that proved to be wrong. The reaction came after the government-endorsed Avgi newspaper published a poll that shows 90% of...

Main opposition New Democracy conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis headed a press conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday in the aftermath of his speech at the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair on Saturday. He pointed to his plan unveiled last night as...

Former Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras urged voters on Friday to reject "the old political system" in the upcoming September 20 elections, party sources said. "On September 20 people are called … to overthrow, with their own vote,...

The official date of the anticipated Greek snap elections could be announced very soon. The Athens Macedonian News Agency cites sources that claim that elections could take place on September 20. According to the same sources the President of the...

Snap elections in Greece did not come as a surprise to the European Commission, stated spokesperson Annika Breidthardt on Friday. Breidthardt said that before the announcement, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a series of phone calls with Greek Prime Minister...

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'...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced early elections on September 20 asking Greek people to give SYRIZA a fresh mandate for a "free, democratic and socially just Greece." In his 14-minute speech Tsipras reviewed and praised the Greek government's work...