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☆ Greek Lawmakers Quit Leftist Syriza Party in Protest Against New Leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

ATHENS (Reuters) - Nine Greek lawmakers quit the leftist Syriza party on Thursday after breaking ranks with its new leader, formalising a split in the country's main opposition party which they said could now disintegrate. They resigned in protest over the leadership of 35-year old Stefanos Kasselakis, a former banker who was picked as party leader in September after Syriza's heavy defeat in June's national election. "SYRIZA is experiencing a dissolution crisis," the lawmakers said in a letter, accusing Kasselakis of contradictory positions and an ideological shift from leftist principles. The lawmakers who quit Syriza have the numbers to form a separate parliamentary group and could launch a new party ahead of European Parliament elections next year. "It is very uncertain how Syriza can succeed under these circumstances," head of ALCO pollsters Costas Panagopoulos told Reuters.

Persons: formalising, Kasselakis, Syriza, Euclid Tsakalotos, Goldman Sachs, Alexis Tsipras, ALCO pollsters Costas Panagopoulos, Renee Maltezou, Gareth Jones Organizations: New Democracy, Socialist PASOK, ALCO, Reuters Locations: ATHENS, United States

A new electoral system means New Democracy fell just shy of an absolute majority, paving the way for coalition talks this week though a second vote in June is more likely. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis emerged stronger despite a wiretapping scandal, the COVID pandemic, a cost of living crisis and a deadly rail crash in February which triggered public outrage. "I think what Syriza missed was the willingness of the electorate to move away from the crisis politics era. That is what Mitsotakis understood whereas Syriza didn't," said Wolfango Piccoli, co-president of political risk advisory at Teneo. Another leftist party, MeRA25, led by Varoufakis, used a similarly cryptic slogan "Alliance for the Rupture".

☆ Greek conservatives lead in national election-exit poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Supporters of New Democracy conservative party react at the party's main election kiosk after the announcement of the first exit polls, in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2023. REUTERS/Alkis KonstantinidisATHENS, May 21 (Reuters) - Greek conservatives were leading over the leftist Syriza in elections on Sunday, a joint exit poll by six polling agencies showed. The exit poll gave the conservative New Democracy party between 36-40% of the vote versus 25-29% for the leftist Syriza party, which governed the country in 2015-2019, at the peak of Greece's financial crisis. The projections suggested that New Democracy was not likely to win outright. EXIT POLLExit poll conducted by: ALCO, Marc, Metron Analysis, MRB Hellas, Pulse and GPO* ND: Conservative party, leader PM Kyriakos MitsotakisSyriza: Leftist party, leader Alexis TsiprasPASOK: Socialist party, leader Nikos AndroulakisKKE: Communist party, leader Dimitris KoutsoumbasMera25: Leftist party, leader Yanis VaroufakisEL: Right-wing Elliniki Lysi (Hellenic Solution), leader Kyriakos VelopoulosPlefsi Eleftherias, leftist party, leader Zoe ConstantopoulouReporting by Athens newsroomOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/4] Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads a cabinet meeting at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, March 28, 2023. Mitsotakis's New Democracy Party has held a comfortable lead over opposition leftist Syriza since it came to power in 2019, opinion polls show, but a Feb. 28 rail disaster which killed 57 people has stirred public anger and seen that gap narrow. The rail disaster on the Athens-Thessaloniki route, Greece's deadliest on record, sparked mass protests over the safety shortcomings of an underfunded and poorly maintained network, the legacy of a decade-long financial crisis which ended in 2018. Mitsotakis said the 'painful and traumatic' experience of the rail disaster highlighted deficiencies the state still had. "On May 21, Greek citizens will choose if the country will continue to seek winning the bet of reforms".

„Condamn atacul cu haita asupra colegului nostru, vicepreședintele raionului Sîngerei, președintele Comisiei excepționale în Sănătate Publică din Raion, responsabil pe domeniul sănătate și asistență socială, Tudor Tutunaru. Cei care pretind că umblă cu "pacea", mai exact cu piatra în sân și dau cu cuțitul în spate și au permis "justiție a la Cavcaliuc" chiar în poarta casei, în momentul când Tudor a revenit de la serviciu. La moment Tudor este în spital și riscă să-și piardă vederea, pentru că soluția Verde de briliant a fost vărsată în fața, pe cap și în ochi. Culmea este faptul că pentru a-l umili pe Tudor, cavcaliucii au chemat poliția pentru a-i testa alcoolemia, pretinzând că este băut. O calomnie, care este demnă doar de poeți in epoleți, pentru că rezultatul alco-testului era ZERO”, a scris Arina Spătaru.

Persons: Tudor Tutunaru, Tudor, Spătaru Locations: Sîngerei

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