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PM, Mitsotakis ramp up campaign messages

In the final straight before Sunday's snap election, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis ramped up their campaign messages on Monday.

Speaking from Iraklio, Crete, Tsipras defended his government's policies, saying its decision to support poor Greeks was not a class-driven policy but one aimed at offering social justice.

Opposition tables constitution revision draft

The parliamentary opposition parties on Monday lodged a constitution revision draft that transposes the outcome of a May 26 referendum on justice matters and fully complies with the National Pact on Romania's European Path initiated by President Klaus Iohannis, according to National Liberal Party (PNL) MP Raluca Turcan.

ALDE's Tariceanu: By Wednesday, at the latest, PSD-ALDE to bring proposals for revising Constitution

The PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party-Alliance of Liberals and Democrats) ruling coalition is going to come up with a series of proposals for revising the Constitution in the next interval, in response to the result of the vote given by the people at the [May 26 - editor's note] referendum, Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, the leader of ALDE, said after the meeting of the governing coa

Non-historical day for Edi Rama

The elections were held in the tense atmosphere due to the fear of potential incidents, that were avoided.
Apart from the low turnout, those elections will be remembered by the boycott of the opposition that happened for the first time after the fall of the Communist regime in the country back in 1990, Macedonian web portal a1on reports.

Tariceanu on presidential elections: Ponta and I have assessed options, we believe best solution, single candidate

Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu believes that the best solution for the presidential elections is a single candidate from PSD - ALDE - PRO Romania (the Social Democratic party, major at rule, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, minor at rule, ed.n.), a proposal announced by Victor Ponta (the Pro Romania leader).

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