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Now, KINAL is nearly or even over ten percent in all opinion polls, even as the two largest parties – New Democracy and SYRIZA - have declined somewhat in surveys.

While ruling New Democracy has always been a centre-right party, Mitsotakis has chosen to interpret that term as 'less ideological' and 'more practical'.

A large majority of respondents expressed approval for Greece’s recent defence agreements with France and the US, especially for the accord with France that included a mutual defence pact.

MP Andreas Loverdos, who has said that if elected he will rename the party Pasok, had the most combative and audacious reaction to Papandreou’s candidacy, and effectively depicted himself as the only candidate that, following in Andreas Papandreou’s footsteps, can make the party great again.

In a lengthy statement, SYRIZA accused ND of skewing Pyatt’s statements with fake news to hide the fact that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the first PM after the 1974 post-junta regime change that has signed an indefinite extension of the US  use of Greek military facilities.

The main opposition has not considered that SYRIZA is not appealing because on all issues on the political agenda – from the Prespes Agreement to [convicted N17 terrorist Dimitris] Koufodinas, and from COVID-19 to the purchase of frigates – it has never once aligned itself with the social majority.

Bogdanos even marshaled ultra-nationalist Georgios “Digenis Grivas, who was the founder of the Nazi-linked ultra-nationalist X Organisation in 1941, and much later of EOKA B, which played a key role in event’s leading to the coup attempt of President Makarios in July, 1974.

In a fresh tweet after he was blasted by top ND cadres, Bogdanos posted a tweet in which he attempted to dissociate himself from the website, but at the same time announced that it had promptly fired the person responsible for the post.

The question now is to what extent the government can be reborn and renew itself so as to transcend the crisis of confidence caused by the catastrophic fires and the insecurity they stirred in the public.

Aside from labour and opposition parties, the government's labour bill has raised intense concerns in the ruling party which hopess to pass the bill in Parliament without irreparable political and electoral cost.

Because the centre of the political spectrum remains the most hegemonic and seminal in terms of political representation, it holds the key to the political stage.

The truth is that Antonis Samaras is not operating in a vacuum. For decades he has had an intransigent stance on national issues and has played the nationalist card,

Charges lodged by former Syriza justice minister Stavros Kontonis that the new criminal code benefited Golden Dawn have rocked the party but thery are far more than an internal party issue.

A government that rests on its laurels and political advantage is in danger of becoming its own victim as In politics inertia, missteps, and omissions that fester will not be pardoned

New Democracy's only opponent is itself and that is no small thing. The only trap that endangers it is that of developing the arrogance of power.

Alexis Tsipras is attempting to organise an autarchic party with a hegemonic leader along the lines of Pasok’s model of governance in the 1980’s under Andreas Papandreou.

In managing the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic he positively impressed everyone with his clear judgment, the directness of his choices, and his swift reaction.

Experts doubt whether the feasibility study on insurance system reform presents credible projections and guarantees regarding the viability of the system.

UNHCR has been appealing to the Greek government to use emergency measures to expedite its plans to transfer a greater number of asylum-seekers to appropriate accommodation on the mainland.  More than 36,000 asylum seekers now in reception centres designed for 5,400 people, according to the UNHCR spokesman.

SYRIZA believed that institutions were made to serve bourgeois political forces and their supposedly pernicious designs.

There is nothing secret under the sun. The unveiling of liberal populism that exists within the ruling party formally occurred in Parliament.

A barrage of draft legislation which signals the government’s outlook and overall plan will be tabled in Parliament this week.

No one must forget that the electoral system must serve national and not partrisan interests.

Mitsotakis maintained that lowering the primary surplus targets is feasible 'when we demonstrate in practice our reform dynamic'.

'I am convinced that we will manage to bring the bright Greece that we all deserve,' Mitsotakis declared.