The main opposition will focus on winning back some ground in the next electoral battle set for June 25, after the party suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday’s general election, according to SYRIZA sources on Monday.
SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras said on Monday that he was not “giving up the fight” after his party’s big defeat in Sunday’s elections.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declined to seek a coalition on Monday following this weekend’s inconclusive election, paving the way for a second vote in June that he hopes his conservative party will win outright.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias discussed on Monday the jailing of an elected ethnic Greek mayor with his Albanian counterpart Olta Xhacka, during a meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministry said.
It is if all the parties agree that there are big problems everywhere and that they need to be addressed. The question is how.
Greece’s bond prices outperformed their peers on Monday as investors reckoned the outcome of general elections was unlikely to lead to a deviation from the current fiscal discipline.
The European Commission has called on Greek authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into fresh allegations of illegal migrant pushbacks, stated Ylva Johansson, the EU’s Home Affairs Commissioner, on Monday.
One of the 36 parties and alliances that contested Sunday’s election received just one vote. With 99.7 percent of votes counted, the Greek Ecologists party of veteran election maverick Dimosthenis Vergis picked up a single ballot, in his constituency of Athens I.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose party won Sunday’s election albeit short of a majority, said on Monday he would not form a coalition government and hoped for a new election on June 25.
Paris 2024 organizers have been planning to install the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The source added that the flame would not be put at the top of the Eiffel Tower, for technical reasons.