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PM lines up Israel visit, discusses conflict with Erdogan Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to visit Jerusalem and hold talks with Benjamin Netanyahu not only to express solidarity to Israel but also to act as a European mediator, according to media sources.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition The results of the second round of local elections, held on Sunday, put a substantially different complexion on the political picture that had been formed following the first round, as New Democracy’s dominance at a regional and municipal level failed to materialise.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Kasselakis puts on friendly face for big business, compounding SYRIZA unease In a move that is unlikely to sit well with everyone in his party, recently elected SYRIZA president Stefanos Kasselakis has attempted to court Greece’s industrialists by declaring that the leftists will adjust their position under his leadership so that they no longer “demonise” capital.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
PM struggling to fulfil same-sex marriage pledge, prompting opposition pressure The issue of same-sex marriage is turning into somewhat of a thorn in Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s side as there appears to be little support from within his party for a change to the law – a fact that SYRIZA is looking to exploit as its new leader Stefanos Kasselakis looks to burnish his liberal credentials, especially when compared to the conservative leader.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Mitsotakis leans on economic performance in bid to clinch local election dominance With regional and municipal elections less than a week away, campaigning has moved into gear with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis working to distance New Democracy from the blame attached to his administration for the poor management of natural disasters.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Government faces new storm test as Kasselakis sweeps through SYRIZA As the government braced for the impact of the latest bout of bad weather, Storm Elias, on Wednesday, the main opposition party SYRIZA was still reeling from the impact of the whirlwind victory of outsider Stefanos Kasselakis in its leadership vote.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Under-fire PM pledges civil defence improvements following summer of destruction Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to address the weaknesses exposed by the state machinery’s flawed response to natural disasters this summer as his government attempts to overcome the negative sentiment stirred up by the wildfires and flooding that affected much of the country over the last few weeks.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Poll suggests mood souring for government, SYRIZA leadership race wide open The first major opinion poll in the wake of the recent flooding reflects how the public mood has soured for the government, while it also suggests that the SYRIZA leadership vote may not end up being a one-horse race.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
Reshuffle and handouts put on ice as New Democracy closes ranks ahead of local elections The political reverberations of a summer of natural disasters have forced yet another change of course on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has ahead of him the difficult tasks of delivering a much-diminished economic programme at Thessaloniki and uniting his party to fight the upcoming local and regional elections.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
PM gathers funds to deal with aftermath of floods as political problem grows more acute Despite announcing on Tuesday that up to 2.25 billion euros of EU funds would be made available to deal with the aftermath of the flooding in Thessaly, the Greek government remained on shaky political ground domestically.