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To Vima on Sunday reported yesterday that Corruption Prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki (photo) has told the Judicial Council that she expects the case to be wrapped up within the next six months.

In its early period SYRIZA’s cadres defended migrants’ rights and were battling the 1% of the world population that was exploiting the toil of the other 99%.

The moderate and soft-spoken former president of Greece’s Council of State evoked great sympathy from the public when he teared while defending himself and his decades-long unblemished public service.

Day by day it becomes increasingly obvious that the Greek Novartis scandal is just what it is in other countries – a medical and not a political scandal. The company itself has admitted the medical scandal.

If there is a political scandal – or at least weighty political responsibility – it involves mainly the 2004-2009 period of the Karamanlis administration which SYRIZA did not wish to investigate

We seek out or manufacture enemies instead of forging a fundamental consensus so as to escape the vicious circle into which the country has fallen.

This situation allows the government and media which have been assigned the role of publishing leaks to continue their scandal-mongering and political exploitation of a judicial case.

As time passes, the general consensus is that government-backed candidates will be trounced and in most cases will not make it into the second round.

Petsitis was the inseparable comrade of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas (considered by many to be PM Alexis Tsipras’ alter-ego) who today is feverishly distancing himself from his old schoolmate,

'The government in an effort to change the composition of the Commission and to render it dysfunctional or completely inert unilaterally added five members of a single community (LGBTQ) and two more members in addition to the existing one from the Roma Community, violating every notion of equality,'

SYRIZA ignored the fundamental political principle that bridges are built through agreement on a political programme and not by political pillaging.

A segment of the Greek press and of the opposition has suggested that Petsitis was SYRIZA’s “cashier” or bag man, interceding between the government and powerful business interests.

SYRIZA once screamed with righteous indignation when two university students in 2013 lost their lives - from a fire caused by a coal-burning heater as their electricity had been cut off – but no one was moved by the death yesterday of a 38-year-old man killed in a fire caused by candles

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.

The Movement for Change has the historical responsibility to bolster its part of the political spectrum. It also has a duty to block the predominance of the populist Left which SYRIZA expressed.

We make mistakes and sometimes unpardonable ones, Deputy PM Yannis Dragasakis told Parliament about arrangements on resolving non-performing loans.

Essentially, the PM’s team is entertaining the idea of small, manageable clashes with creditors that can be easily resolved with a minor governmental retreat.

Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said that lack of protection from foreclosure was a strategic choice of both New Democracy and Pasok because 'in the world of corrupt vested interests which they defend, the weak and vulnerable are not entitled to protection'.

Who is forcing SYRIZA today to place on its European Parliament ticket a person whose name is inextricably tied with vested interests and state-funded entrepreneurship?

As the painful negotiation with creditors on home foreclosure protection was going on, a minister who seems to ignore the realities came out and spoke of handing out a 250-euro Easter bonus

In light of the Loizou debacle SYRIZA vetted prospective candidates very carefully in order to avoid yet another fiasco.

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

Government leaks over many months about the jailing of suspects, bank accounts abroad, and the bribery of politicians which will blow the political system out of the water all proved to be nonsense.

Citizens, businessmen, and the work force are not offered solutions to their problems because the government adopts opportunistic policies.