Giorgos Kaminis
Candidates for new party to hold televised debate on Monday
Candidate leaders for a new center-left party that is set to be launched this year will be holding their first television debate on Monday night, amid speculation over the party's makeup and platform.
Kaminis sketches broad strokes of new center-left party
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis does not rule out entering a future government coalition should he be elected to lead a new center-left political party next month.
Athens named emerging cultural city of the world
Athens was named the Emerging Cultural City of the Year for 2017 at the Leading Culture Destinations Award in London on Friday. The Greek capital was lauded for managing to a maintain a thriving cultural scene despite the country's protracted financial crisis.
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City's debts reduced by half, Athens mayor says
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Thursday said that during his two-term tenure at the helm of the capital's municipal authority he succeeded in reducing its debts by half.
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Kaminis to remain mayor if he is voted party leader
Giorgos Kaminis said Wednesday he will stay on as Athens mayor even if he is elected leader of Greece's new center-left party in November.
"If I am elected head of the center-left [party] I will not leave the Athens municipality as I was elected for a specific tenure and my political identity was known," Kaminis told Skai on Wednesday.
Ten candidates line up for top job in center-left party
Three more candidates threw their hat into the race for the leadership of Greece's new center-left political party on Friday - the deadline to submit their nomination.
Maniatis launches center-left party leadership bid
PASOK MP Yiannis Maniatis on Wednesday announced his candidacy to become leader of Greece's new center-left political party.
"My ambition is that [the new party] will render modern social democracy a main player in our country's political developments," Maniatis told journalists after submitting his candidacy.
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Stavros Theodorakis expected to formally announce candidacy for new party
The head of centrist To Potami, Stavros Theodorakis, is expected to formally announce on Friday his running for the leadership of a new center-left party that will be formed in October.
DIMAR chief wants single center-left party, not coalition
Thanasis Theocharopoulos, leader of the minor Democratic Left (DIMAR) party, has said he will announce next week if he will run for the leadership of Greece's nascent center-left party.
Kaminis officially announces candidacy for new center-left party
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has officially announced his candidacy for Greece's a new center-left political party that aspires to establish itself between SYRIZA and New Democracy.
"The country needs a radical change of political orientation that only a big progressive democratic party can guarantee," Kaminis told a press conference in Athens on Monday.