Popular Unity party
Greek voters have a great sense of humor… and short memory spans (pics + vids)
Tsipras returned to power with a clear election win!
Greek elections: Three parties battle for 3% of the votes
Right-wing populist Independent Greeks (ANEL), Popular Unity Party (Laiki Enotita) and Union of Centrists are seeking a place in Greek Parliament. Exit polls at 7 p.m. showed all three parties having a chance to gather 3% of the votes with the following estimations:
ANEL – 3-4% estimations
Varoufakis backs two candidates in Lafazanis's Popular Unity party
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave his indirect support to newly formed leftist party Popular Unity by endorsing two of its candidates, former Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani and former Alternate Defence Minister Kostas Isichos.
Alekos Flambouraris, the MP who commissioned public works to himself – Reactions
SYRIZA heavyweight Alekos Flambouraris incited a political tempest following Proto Thema’s investigation into his business ventures.
Podemos also turns back on former comrades of SYRIZA
The far-left anti-memorandum bloc that emerged after the split with leftist SYRIZA appears to have attracted the support of the high-flying Spanish party once dubbed as SYRIZA’s “sister party” on the Iberian peninsula, Podemos.
Will there be budget travel for voters?
The Popular Unity party asked Greece’s caretaker government to take measures to facilitate voters’ travel during the elections, such as free or discount travel to where they vote.
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Meimarakis: I’ll form a nat’l consensus gov’t; Tsipras: I won’t cooperate with ND
Candidates continued to criss-cross the country on Friday, with snap elections in just over a week in what — hopefully — will be the last political campaign in crisis-plagued Greece in 2015.
Another one gone: MEP Sophia Sakorafa leaves SYRIZA
MEP Sophia Sakorafa, who had been elected at the European Parliament under the SYRIZA ballot, announced she would leave the leftist party in a statement released Friday. The former champion javelin thrower and close friend of Zoe Konstantopoulou is the second MEP that leaves SYRIZA after Nikos Chountis had joined the new Popular Party.
Zoe Konstantopoulou's witty, self-sarcastic TV spot (vid+pics)
Bellicose former president of the Greek parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou proves she has some sense of humour, as she employs self-sarcasm in her 40 sec. TV spot to get the message of Popular Unity party that the Greek debt is unserviceable and should not be paid.
Konstantopoulou-Varoufakis-Melenchon to join forces
Former president of the Greek parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou heralded the creation of a European front against austerity and a ‘Plan B’, with the participation of former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and French left politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, during an interview on Greek TV station Ant-1, Thursday morning.