Vangelis Meimarakis

SYRIZA

Main opposition New Democracy Party leader Vangelis Meimarakis is holding a press conference at the Ioannis Vellidis Center in Thessaloniki.

“In 2012 we could have communicated and worked together to leave behind all that separated us so that the country could get out of its predicament,” he said.

Conservative New Democracy leader Vangelis Meimarakis continued to turn up the heat on his main rival and ex-PM Alexis Tsipras on Saturday, reminding that the “only new thing Tsipras brought was the new memorandum”.

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.

Greece’s former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who lives in a humble working-class flat with Betty and his two sons, spent summer on an isolated island known as Ereikoussa or at least that’s the publicised part of his vacation that the public were privy to.

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Vangelis Meimarakis said that Greece needs a stable coalition government that will stay in power for a full four-year term in an interview with newspaper Real News.

Vangelis Meimarakis, the leader of major opposition party New Democracy accused Greek PM Alexis Tsipras of brinkmanship in an interview on Greek TV Tuesday evening. Meimarakis said Tsipras cannot risk the country’s future by calling elections in order to solve his internal party problems.

Political “fireworks” in Greece appear to be ebbing in the wake of an agreement with creditors and subsequent votes in Parliament to ratify the deal and pass “prior actions”, while the peaking Grecian summer season means less interest in politics — thankfully — and more for beach, sun, islands and excursions to mainland villages.

Friday political highlights include:

A compromise has more-or-less been reached in terms of main opposition New Democracy’s leadership, with current interim president Vangelis Meimarakis expected to serve until the spring of 2016 until a party election.

However, the same election process will be employed, namely, election by the party’s grass roots.

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Vangelis Meimarakis employed past descriptions used by ruling leftist SYRIZA party — when it was in the opposition — to ask whether “coup instigators” and “criminals of Europe” gave us the money to remain alive?