elections

Evangelos Meimarakis is the winner of Sunday's election for the presidency of the New Democracy party, the main political opposition force in Greece, without, however, securing the party's reigns as of yet. Meimarakis, who served as interim party president from July 2015 until November...

Vodafone is reported to have taken on responsibility for the New Democracy (ND) party elections, only if the first round of elections are held after December 19. Up until now, the most likely date for the elections was for...

New Democracy, Greece's main political opposition has yet to decided when it will go ahead with its postponed presidential elections. The party's parliamentary group convened today, ahead of the discussion of the yearly budget in the Greek parliament. New Democracy's interim president Yiannis...

Daniel Scioli, the ruling party candidate who leads in the polls ahead of Argentina's presidential elections on October 25, said on Thursday he would appoint Silvina Batakis economy minister if he wins. Batakis, who has been economy minister of the...

New Democracy Interim president Evangelos Meimarakis announced that he is running for the party's presidential seat in the conservative party's upcoming elections. Meimarakis has lead New Democracy since early July, when former party president and former Greek Prime Minister Antonis...

Greek merchandise exports are expected to fall in 2015, the Federation of Northern Greece Exporters (SEBE) said on Wednesday. In a report, SEBE said that the introduction of capital controls in the country deteriorated an already burdened situation in...

Farmers from northern Greece will be position themselves at polling stations to protest on election day, Sunday September 20, announced the head of the nationwide coordinating committee of farmers and stockbreeders Christos Gondias. Gondias spoke to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency,...

Brussels allegedly wants to see a broad coalition government forming in Greece after the September 20 elections in order to discuss Greek debt restructuring, says a report in Ta Nea daily newspaper. The report that was published on Tuesday cites...

A total of 19 political parties and five party coalitions on Monday sent declarations stating their intention to run in the September 20 general elections to the Supreme Court Prosecution. The final decision on the parties and coalitions that...

International Monetary Fund official Poul Thomsen said that elections will cost Greece the delay of the next bailout tranche disbursement and deprive the market of 800 million euros in liquidity. Thomsen briefed the IMF board of directors on the Greek...