Greece’s leftists will receive an official mandate on Tuesday to form a coalition government after an inconclusive national election, but are expected to seek a second vote instead.
The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for the second-round runoff vote to be held on May 28.
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, a political and economic analysis site that focuses on Greece, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest breakdown from Greece’s election, looking at Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ historic win, the questions the result has raised about SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras’ political future, and more.
The Sports Ministry has announced a ban on the the organized movement of AEK Athens and PAOK soccer fans in Volos, central Greece, in view of the Greek Cup final on Wednesday, citing “serious reasons of public order and security.”
Pollsters claim they did detect the trends that led to New Democracy’s triumph over Syriza in Sunday’s elections, but avoided publishing the results because of the “severe criticism” they were subjected to by main opposition Syriza.
Five people arrested on Sunday for allegedly violating electoral legislation in Sofades in Karditsa, central Greece will appear before an investigative magistrate on Thursday.
With New Democracy set to comfortably win an outright majority in the second election, which will probably take place on June 25, a relentless political battle has already begun for the dominance of the center-left of the political spectrum.
The new cycle of subsidies for tourism investments has begun, only this time it excludes business plans on Mykonos and Santorini.
The pandemic and the energy crisis that burdened the previous four years did not help to deal with chronic wounds of the economy, on the contrary, they restored – even if temporarily – the deficits in the budget and in the balance of payments.
Greece posted a 5.2-billion-euro decrease in the current and capital account deficit in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022, a development related to the significant growth in the balance of secondary incomes, i.e. increased collection of European funds, but also to the reduction of the trade deficit (improvement of…