Anna Diamantopoulou, a former European Union commissioner for social affairs and minister, announced her candidacy for leader of socialist PASOK on Tuesday, bringing the number of hopefuls to eight.
ELECTIONS
Another day, another murder, and the occasional political assassination attempt. It’s notable that only the young are surprised. After all, this is the “home of the brave” as the American national anthem goes.
The Omonoia organization representing the ethnic Greek minority in southern Albania, and the parties of the Albanian opposition chose as their joint candidate in the repeat municipal elections of August 4 in Himare Petro Gjikuria, an ethinic Greek Albanian who lives and works in the United States.
The great questions as to how France will be governed reflects the magnitude of the strategic success of the parties of the center and left in the run-up to the second round of the national elections.
It was a thrilling night. Not long after the polling stations closed and the first results were announced, it was clear that Labour was heading for victory.
A centrist leader wins after a tired government runs out of energy. The British election result might possibly suggest parallels with Greece in 2019.
Promising “stability and moderation,” the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, declared that his country needed a “bigger reset, a rediscovery of who we are.”
Stefanos Kasselakis, leader of the left-wing Greek opposition SYRIZA party, congratulated the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour Party for their “huge victory” in Thursday’s elections.
Main opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis clarified in an interview with Alpha TV on Tuesday that he does not know if the previous SYRIZA leadership had made use of shady funding sources.
France is in danger of entering a permanent conflict, in case President Emmanuel Macron is forced to “cohabit” with Jordan Bardella after the elections. This is the assessment of political scientist Jonah Levy, vice chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Berkeley.
PASOK president Nikos Androulakis proposed for the party to hold a leadership election on October 6 and 13 during his speech at the PASOK Central Committee meeting on Sunday.
Some 87 SYRIZA prominent members and MPs sent a joint letter to Kasselakis on Thursday, criticizing his leadership and calling for a united left-wing front against the ruling New Democracy government.
Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas hinted that he plans to run for the leadership of the Socialist PASOK party in a social media post on Thursday.
“Macron does not know what the answer is about the people’s reaction, but he is taking the risk as he considers politics as gambling,” argues Christian Lequesne, professor of political science at Sciences Po in Paris.
Athens Mayor Haris Doukas, in a letter to PASOK’s central committee on Tuesday, called for a party leadership election in November.
Giorgos Aftias won 310,876 votes, way ahead of all other Greek candidates in the European Parliament elections.
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