Yiannis Plakiotakis

A day following the leak of the Greek government's 170 page proposal to reform the Greek pension system,   Greek Government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili attacked the other political parties for their refusal to support the reform push. While the reform...

The government's draft bill for the "parallel program" has not been withdrawn, an announcement issued by the Greek prime minister's office said on Thursday, while condemning what it claimed was the "irresponsible" stance of the three opposition parties that...

New Democracy interim leader Yiannis Plakiotakis accused Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of 'fiddling' with budget figures and cheating the Greek people. The opposition leader late on Saturday said Tsipras tried "to cheat (the Greek people) and transfer the responsibility...

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...

Interim New Democracy president Vangelis Meimarakis stepped down in order to maintain party unity and lower the tone after Sunday's botched election for party leader. A further move on behalf of Meimarakis was to abstain from the ND parliamentary group...

Evangelos Meimarakis announced on Tuesday afternoon that he is resigning as interim president of New Democracy, in the aftermath of the conservative party's failure to hold the scheduled presidential elections this past Sunday. The former interim chief cited the party's unity as a reason for...