Left-wing politics

A suspect was detained in Istanbul during an operation after a bomb attack on an office of the Turkey Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) in the district of Gaziosmanpaşa, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on April 26.

By Gina Moscholiou

The idea was tabled by -who else? - SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.

He said that it would be well if instead of PM Kyriakos and himself exchanging public statements, there should be a no-holds-barred debate.

A new Economic Barometer poll conducted by GPO shows SYRIZA trailing New Democracy by 9.2 percentage points.

The ruling party garnered 31.2 percent compared to 22 percent for the main opposition.
Centre-left KINAL has been steadily rising and has reached 14.4 percent.

Former SYRIZA alternate migration minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou has said that if the party returns to power it should pack the judiciary and public administration with its own cadres, as PASOK had done when it came to power in 1981.

"We must have our own people, in order to be able to influence them on the spot," she told a party gathering," as Parapolitika reported.

In recent days, the Parliament has been transformed into an arena, care of SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis, with conflicts beyond and outside any parliamentary precedent.

At the same time, the pandemic continues to rage, while Greek society is in a new shock from the murder of the 19-year-old for football team differences.

We had become so accustomed to it that we considered it a structural element of our political system.

The two biggest parties would just take turns in exercising power, and their differences were so great that the prospect of a German-style Grand Coalition were practically nil.

A battle royal has broken out between the government and main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras over the charges of the president of the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers, Michalis Giannakos, that some hospital beds have been set aside for VIPs, even as other intubated COVID-19 patients are being treated outside ICUs, waiting their turn on the prioritised waiting lists.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to deliver a nationally televised address to the nation tomorrow at a critical juncture in the development of the COVID-19 epidemic, with many hospitals near the breaking point and with a rapidly mounting death toll and number of intubated patients.

Inflation "climbed" to 3.4% in October 2021, according to ELSTAT.

In particular, the comparison of the General CPI of October 2021 with the corresponding Index of October 2020 resulted in an increase of 3.4% compared to a decrease of 1.8% in the respective comparison of the year 2020 with 2019.

Ruling New Democracy retains a double-digit lead over main opposition SYRIZA according to a Pulse poll presented on SKAI television's evening newscast.