New Democracy leadership election

Current President of New Democracy  and candidate for the party’s leadership Evangelos Meimarakis met with the three other candidates, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Adonis Georgiadis in an effort to calm down the explosive atmosphere created especially following yesterday’s angry intervention of Evangelos Meimerakis.

Outspoken conservative New Democracy deputy and former minister Adonis Georgiadis is the third contender for the party’s helm, announcing his candidacy on Monday evening.

Georgiadis is a relative newcomer to ND, arriving from the rightist-populist LA.OS party before it collapsed in the 2012 election. He represents the right-wing of the party.

17 years after the death of former President of Republic and conservative New Democracy leader Constantinos Karamanlis, a memorial service was held at “Constantinos Karamanlis Institute”, at the Athens suburb of Filothei on Tuesday.

Main Opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras lashed out against the government on Thursday, accusing it of having lost control at the country's Universities and tolerating assaults against police departments.

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