Independent Greeks
Tensions peak over parliamentary panel
Political tensions intensified on Friday after Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas rejected a complaint by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras over the exemption of leftist MPs Pavlos Polakis and Dimitris Tzanakopoulos from a House committee probing alleged meddling by former alternate justice minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos in the Novartis investigation.
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Tsipras complains about exclusion of SYRIZA MPs from Novartis panel
In a letter to Parliament Speaker Constantinos Tasoulas, former prime minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras complained about the exemption of leftist MPs Pavlos Polakis and Dimitris Tzanakopoulos from a parliamentary committee probing alleged meddling in the Novartis investigation.
Gov’t upbeat on prospects for consensus on diaspora vote
The government believes it will secure the backing of 200 MPs for its initiative to grant full voting rights to diaspora Greeks, sources indicated after the first session on Wednesday of a cross-party committee discussing the proposal.
Response issued to NYT op-ed criticizing PM of being right-wing
In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, and the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, Endy Zemenides responded to an op-ed earlier in the week titled "The Adults Are Back in Charge of Greece.
Response issued to op-ed criticizing PM of being right-wing
In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, and the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, Endy Zemenides responded to an op-ed earlier in the week titled "The Adults Are Back in Charge of Greece.
Anger over penal code
The revision of Greece's criminal code included a series of positive changes and it was the result of cooperation between notable figures.
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New poll: 51% say election results positive, 63% say tax cuts top priority
Just over 50 percent of respondents were positive or "probably positive" about the outcome of the 7 July general election that swept New Democracy to power while 46 percent were negative or "probably negative" according to a Kappa Research poll conducted between 9-11 July
Leventis: ‘Wrong to give Mitsotakis an outright majority’
The leader of the Union of Centrists, Vasilis Leventis, argued it would be a mistake to grant election front runner Kyriakos Mitsotakis an outright majority in Sunday's general elections, saying his party "stands in the way" of this plan.
To Vima reveals close ties of Russian oligarch Lebedev with government
The Novartis case and transparency
Transparency is a great thing - so great that every democratic country should have it. In that sense, a recent opinion piece in Ta Nea newspaper by Movement for Change (KINAL) MP and former health minister Andreas Loverdos in which he asks for the next Parliament to examine "SYRIZA's attempt to establish a state separate from the democracy of transparency" makes sense.
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