PASOK setting itself higher goals
Center-left PASOK has every reason to celebrate Sunday’s result as it has increased its share of the vote by 50 percent over two election cycles.
Center-left PASOK has every reason to celebrate Sunday’s result as it has increased its share of the vote by 50 percent over two election cycles.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou is expected to present Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the formal mandate to form a government on Monday morning after his New Democracy party’s resounding victory on Sunday night.
Cypriot security forces thwarted an attempted terror attack against Israeli and Jewish targets by a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Sunday, local media said.
New Democracy won a sweeping victory in Sunday’s election, securing its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis a second term in office in an eight-party Parliament which will also feature a strong contingent of far-right parties.
A little-known political party endorsed by a jailed former lawmaker won seats in Greece’s parliament, signaling a political comeback for the far right.
SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras refuted speculation that he may step down from the helm of the main opposition after suffering a second defeat in Sunday’s ballot.
Greece’s conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister.
Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term.
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed his party’s resounding victory on Sunday night and vowed that the conservatives would be setting “high goals” for their second term at the helm of the Greek government.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to shake up his Cabinet after winning Sunday’s election in a landslide, moving top conservative cadres and adding new faces to the mix.