Progressive Alliance

A concerted attack was launched Thursday by opposition parties against the government over the lack of preventive measures to deal with the catastrophic flooding that struck the region of Thessaly in central Greece.

SYRIZA's Parliamentary Group Chairman Sokratis Famellos denounced the government during Thursday's Parliament debate on the wildfires, saying that despite the announcements, the country appeared unprepared for the danger.

Socialist opposition party PASOK said many of the measures announced by the prime minister on Wednesday to curb hooligan-related violence in Greece are "already foreseen" in the reform package agreed on after the killing of a soccer fan by hooligans in February 2022.

The opposition PASOK party has called for the resignation of Citizen Protection Minister Giannis Oikonomou after leaked police documents showed that authorities possessed prior knowledge of Croatian hooligans' intentions to travel to Athens, potentially with the malevolent aim of inciting violence.

An online news website published on Thursday some of the malicious text messages sent to 92 people in order to infect their cellphones with the Predator spyware.

PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis told lawmakers on Wednesday that he has learned of an additional attempt to tap his phone with illegal spyware apart from the two that were made public last year.

An "immeasurable environmental disaster" is taking place in the last six days on the island of Rhodes, center-left PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis said in on Sunday.

The Cyprus Parliament voted against two non-government bills about borrowers' rights last Thursday, which disregarded warnings from the government and the Central Bank about potential threats to the stability of the financial sector.

Former socialist minister and MP Andreas Loverdos, who recently resigned from PASOK, has not confirmed speculation about a potential collaboration with the ruling New Democracy conservatives, according to his comments on Monday.

"We will not give a vote of confidence to the government…we will be the reliable opposition the people need," socialist leader Nikos Androulakis said Saturday during the debate on the government's policy statement.

Androulakis' PASOK party came third in the June 25 election, with 11.84% of the vote, electing 32 MPs in the 300-member Greek Parliament.