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Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, who loses no opportunity to target his opponents and their families, and who is continuing a legal battle against a deceased journalist, now is playing the slighted and targeted victim.

Polakis placed the call in order to discuss reports that the Bank of Greece was to probe a 100,000-euro loan that was issued to him by the Attica Bank.

'The unheard of effort of Minister Pavlos Polakis to influence the administration of the Bank of Greece and me personally regarding how we carry out our duties constitutes a flagrant institutional aberration.'

Those in power are obliged to maintain a certain level of dialogue in public life and to keep up appearances.

There have been clashes between government ministers in the past, but they never reached this degree of unprecedented wretchedness, with the PM remaining silent.

In the recorded conversation, Polakis demands that Stournaras also probe the loans of political parties and of other politicians.

Extreme right-wing Chrysi Avgi places third with 8.6 percent followed by the Movement for Change (7.9 percent), and the Greek Communist Party (6.7 percent).

In the lawsuit, Kotzias accuses Kammenos of masterminding and engaging in verbal abuse, slander, threats, and the dissemination of false news against the government.

One cannot but agree that the manner in which certaing Pasok cadres moved to SYRIZA creates the impression that the PM is in panic .

The government's paramount consideration in all choices is political gains for the ruling party. Creating fissures in politics and society is a primary concern.

Eleftherios Venizelos, one of the greatest statesmen of the Modern Greek state, spoke more about interests than about just rights.

The limited reshuffle was necessitated by the departure from the cabinet of two ministers who will be candidates in May’s municipal elections.

SYRIZA’s proposal that the President of the Republic be elected by popular vote if there is a deadlock in Parliament was rejeccted.

The proposal to allow the establishment of non-state universities is supported by both the centre-right and the centre-left.

The government’s games with the constitutional revision undermined every effort to reach a parliamentary consensus

The fact that the provision on church-state relations was not passed by a two-thirds majority today means that it will need two-thirds to pass in the post-election Parliament.

provides for protection of borrowers with delinquent home loans and business loans for which a home was used as collateral with a tax value of up to 200,000 euros.

It is impermissible for partisan criteria to take precedence over the need of the whole of society to meet the challenges of our era

The state tolerates the operation of various colleges, the graduates of which are recognised as professionally equal to those of state universities, but it refuses to allow the creation of non-state universities.

The crucial political issue is that now the main opposition can deny the government the requisite enhanced majority to elect the president so as to force a general election and topple the government.