The system of simple proportional representation used in the May 21 elections was a wasteful, inconvenient and costly choice – a price we paid due to the opportunism of SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, which mirrored the opportunism of the late socialist leader Andreas Papandreou.
Greece’s president will appoint a caretaker prime minister on Wednesday to form a government that will lead the country to a repeat election on June 25, after last weekend’s inconclusive vote.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greek authorities were investigating a New York Times video showing asylum seekers being forcibly ejected from Greece but reiterated denials that his government knowingly carries out so-called pushbacks.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas, a senior judicial official who is president of the Court of Audit, as caretaker prime minister on Wednesday to form a government that will lead the country to a repeat election on June 25, after last weekend’s inconclusive vote.
Ioannis Sarmas, the president of the Court of Audit, will be appointed as the caretaker prime minister by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou after party leaders were unable to reach an agreement on forming a coalition government Wednsday.
Turkey’s anti-immigrant Victory Party leader endorsed opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday, potentially boosting the challenger as he aims to make up ground and defeat President Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s runoff election.
Greek parties that made it to the parliament after last weekend’s inconclusive elections are expected to meet on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to form a coalition government.
A 34-year-old Algerian man was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday on charges of sexual assault against a 42-year-old woman from the Czech Republic in Monastiraki, in central Athens.
The increasing demand for luxury homes in Attica from wealthy individuals and the limited supply of such real estate stock, even if ones takes into account projects under way that will take time to come on the market, has started to shape prices above of 20,000 euros per square meter.
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides addressed the 60th Congress of PASYDY, the civil servants’ trade union, on Tuesday and discussed significant developments regarding the restoration of shift allowances and overtime compensation for civil servants.