#GREECE: Small Right -Wing Party Banned By Lawmakers

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Greek MPs have voted to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.

The Greeks-National Party was founded two years ago by former lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, who is currently serving a more than 13-year prison sentence over his leading role in Golden Dawn, which was declared a criminal organization in 2020 for charges including murder, racist violence and money laundering. Kasidiaris still managed to gain significant support from messages posted on YouTube while in jail.

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#GREECE: Electoral Law Would Award "Bonus Seats" To Parliament

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A proposed law would award "bonus seats"  to the winning party in elections, helping to avoid hung parliaments.

Under fthr bill, the winning party receives 25% of the vote it will get a bonus of 20 seats, and an additional seat for every additional half a percentage point.

If it wins more than 40%  then it will receive a maximum of 50 bonus seats.

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#GREECE: Greeks Return Syriza Party & Tsipras To Power With Coalition In Surprising Result

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Alexis Tsipras' left-wing, anti-austerity Syriza Party entered Sunday's election badly damaged but in the end, Greek voters decided to give them another chance, winning the fifth election in six years. Syriza topped the vote, gaining 35%, the conservative New Democracy party had 28% and the far-right Golden Dawn is set to be the third biggest party, with 7.1%.

#GREECE: Tsipras Plan For Greater Majority With Snap Election May Be Backfiring

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As Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras steps down, his bid to regain a parliamentary majority with early elections risks failing as low turnout and disarray within his party threaten to yield no clear winner. Disillusionment with Tsipras' unfulfilled promises may lead to a fragmented parliament and difficult coalition talks.

#GREECE: PM Tsipras Resigns; Triggers New Elections To Judge Bailout Deal's Future

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in. Government officials said the aim was to hold the election on Sept. 20, with Tsipras seeking to crush a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal public support for the bailout program, Greece's third since 2010, that he negotiated.

#GREECE: PM #AlexisTsipras Warns Rebels In His Party Opposing Deal Of Early Elections

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned rebels in his Syriza Party that he could be forced to call early elections if he no longer has a parliamentary majority. Many left-wingers in his party are angry that bailout terms negotiated with the EU are more stringent than those rejected by voters in the recent referendum.

#GREECE: Fin. Min. Varoufakis Vows To Resign If Greeks Vote "Yes" To EU Austerity

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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Greece won’t "extend and pretend" that it can pay its debts, vowing to resign as finance minister if voters don’t support him in Sunday’s referendum. He said he would "prefer to cut my arm off" rather than sign an agreement without debt being restructured.

#GREECE: Anti-Austerity Pty Nears Victory, #Merkel Tells Greece: Stay In Eurozone

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Days before Greece's Jan. 25th snap election German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wants Greece to stay in the Eurozone. Likely to win is anti-austerity, Syriza Party, which wants to abandon the austerity policy imposed by the EU and International Monetary Fund as part of Greece's €240 billion bailout.

#GREECE: Failure to Elect Head of State Leads To New Elections, Fresh Crisis

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The failure of Greece's parliament to elect a new head of state - falling just 12 votes short of votes needed - immediately triggered a snap election within 30 days, likely to be won by the Leftist, anti-austerity Syriza Party. This is bad news for the EU, which is funding Greece's debt.

#GREECE: Gov't Moves up Pres. Vote Two Months to Dec. 17

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The conservative government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has moved up the parliamentary vote that will select the country's next president two months, to Dec. 17, in an attempt to gain a better footing for upcoming negotiations with the EU over its ongoing bailout, say coalition officials.

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Poll Gives Ruling New Democracy Party 2.3% Lead Over Opposition Syriza [world politics news]

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