Greek General Election

The government was obliged to respect the verdict of the people and immediately call parliamentary elections, thus opening a new electoral cycle.

As it turned out it was not the opinion polls that constituted fake news but rather the crude propaganda of SYRIZA and its mouthpieces.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that if Tsipras is defeated in the 26 May European Parliament election “he should go to Zappeion Hall and announce his resignation and declare that elections will be held in four weeks”.

The leader of Olymiacos categorically dismissed rumours and scenarios that he is interested in entering the fray of national politics and declared that his sole passion is the Red and Whites.

Opponents of the move toward the centre say it will damage the party’s popularity among left-wing voters which were its base when it was garnering only four or five percent of the popular vote

With the cards stacked against them, none of the initiatives that the PM and his government take suffice to turn the game around.

The electoral cycle could be expedited if the Prime Minister and his campaign team believe that could produce a manageable defeat.

Due to opposition for the Prespa Accord, MPs who represent districts north of Larisa are unable to meet citizens as they are treated either with indifference or contempt.

That is perhaps the greatest problem of the ruling party. It can no longer stir the masses or revive expectations.

In his address to his parliamentary group yesterday, the Prime Minister demonstrated that the only policy that he serves faithfully is that of division and polarisation.

Bravado, threats, and targeted attacks can no longer shore up the morale even of SYRIZA’s narrow party base.

Since last August the government has operated as if it were in an electoral campaign. It has sharpened its rhetoric and suspended crucial measures and choices.

A whopping 67 percent replied that the Prespa Agreement will greatly affect the electoral outcome.

The interior minister said there will be a “technical and institutional solution” for voters who are registered in the provinces but live and vote in Attica to cast their municipal and prefectural ballots where they live.

sipras believes that in tackling the constitutional amendments he can burnish his progressive image.

The tight embrace of the two coalition partners in the September, 2015 general election signaled more than just a reaffirmation of the Prime Minister’s trust in his junior coalition partner.

'Vote for us to save your home,' the PM will proclaim shamelessly in his campaign stump speeches.

The report also concerns itself with Skopje’s EU course, and it calls for a roadmap for implementation and enforcement of the Prespa Accord in the longer term.

Isolated from the Greek people, burdened with politico-ideological fixations, and with a limited understanding of the contemporary world, Mr. Tsipras cannot keep up with international trends.

Either the government will secure the requisite majority to continue its work or it will go to the polls as soon as possible.

The country and its political life must rid themselves of the habit of using the date of elections as a means to achieving political aims.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras outlined his arguments about the regional benefits of the FYROM naming accord (Prespa Agreement), discussed Greece’s relations with the US and Russia, and ruled out early elections, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal “I will not play games. The agreement will be ratified in the Greek parliament just after […]