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The appointments of officials in responsible positions circumvent the hierarchy, until the chosen ones of every minister, general secretary, and chief or deputy chief are selected

With all that Alexis Tsipras said, combined with his rejection of early elections, he essentially wants to play for time politically

“These people who are executing contracts are not journalists. We are not in a period of journalistic flowering. What is happening in Greece under SYRIZA is unprecedented,” said Panos Skourletis

“Today’s General Secretariat of Civil Protection will be abolished, and will be replaced by the National Service of Emergency Management, which will be a distinct public bureau that will be overseen by the interior ministry,” Tsipras said

It is obvious that instead of moving in a social democratic direction as they say in SYRIZA, they are moving more in the direction of the provocative Alternate Health Minister Polakis

Our government is adopting an almost theological approach, attributing the great evil of the recent wildfire disaster exclusively to the sins of the previous decades

With the education system facing a host of problems, Education Minister Kostas Gavroglu decided that the basic problem is the schedule, and problems will be solved if classes start an hour later

A law tabled by New Democracy MPs in 2015 “froze” fines and the tearing down of illegal structures, and confirmed that ND is nothing more than the party of arbitrary action,” SYRIZA said in a statement.

Alexis Tsipras has entirely lost his credibility. He has had certain communications successes, but now he has lost that game as well.

Essentially, he placed in the same balance the Mati tragedy with the bailout memorandum exit and the government’s celebrations after 21 August

The PM blamed the disaster on climate change, illegal buildings and the policies that facilitated their construction, and to the interests that traded in building lots

Kontonis reiterated that the transfer to provincial prisons is part of the government’s plan to turn Korydallos into a facility for prisoners standing trial

We did not see a shred of self-criticism in the PM's speech, which focused mainly on how he will stem anarchic construction and tear down illegal structures.

Buildings that are on the coastline, on forest tracts or in national forests, and on creeks in Attica, and which constitute an immediate threat to public security, will be torn down

What is the explanation for the fact that 16 days after the catastrophe authorities have still not issued an official list of the names of the victims?

The government’s stance provoked and continues to do so, despite the belated, limited apologies and the weak self-criticism

Police Union official Vahliotis said that there was no one from Greek Police, the Fire Service, or the Prefecture to coordinate operations. We communicated via cell phones and shouting'

Now, Moscow is expelling the commercial attaché and the director of communications of the Greek Embassy in Moscow

Prosecutors will probe causes of the fire and responsibilities of state and municipal government officials who were implicated in the tragic events

The government thought it would provoke with references to their accomplishments that are “made murky” by the burnt and drowned citizens, along with half-hearted apologies, and with vulgar attacks against the press,