Pavlos Christidis

Amid the backlash from some clerics over Parliament's recent ratification of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Archbishop Ieronymos ordered an ecclesiastical inquiry on Tuesday concerning the archimandrite of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, Father Seraphim Dimitriou, over his recent behavior toward a socialist MP.

The Movement for Change (KINAL) party's members and friends have elected as its leader in a landslide MEP Nikos Androulakis, defeating the party's MP and former prime minister George Papandreou.

With 60.13 percent of the votes counted, Androulakis received 60.13 percent and Papandreou 31.58 percent of the vote.

The attention is now turned to the second round of the internal party elections for the election of the president of the Movement for Change (KINAL) party as the alliances, that may be created, will play a decisive role to the election of the leader.

By Dimitris Chondros

Who won the debate between the five candidates [the sixth, former PM George Papandreou, refused to participate] for the leadership of the KINAL (Movement for Change)?

A month before the first round of the centre-left Movement for Change (KINAL) party's leadership race, three of the six candidates that are neck and neck are the most likely to make it to the second round, according to a GPO poll published today in the weekend edition of Ta Nea.

By George Gilson

The centre-left Movement for Change Party (KINAL, formerly Pasok) today approved and certified six candidates for the party leadership race after examining the signatures submitted in support of each candidate.

By George Gilson

One day after SYRIZA's overture to the Movement for Change (KINAL), the center-left coalition led by Fofi Gennimata on Thursday rejected the idea of working with the leftist opposition ahead of the next election.
"Rumors about discussions with SYRIZA are no longer valid," KINAL spokesman Pavlos Christidis told a press briefing.

Boosted by her comfortable victory in the recent vote for the center-left leadership, Fofi Gennimata appears determined to occupy the political space eyed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's ruling SYRIZA party.

The main opposition party of New Democracy (ND) is asking for explanations by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras for the alleged presence of the Minister at a casino during his trip to London.

In an statement to Parapolitika newspaper that revealed the case, they comment: “Is Mr. Kamnemos aware of what he is doing? We look forward to his apology on Monday”.