Stavros Theodorakis
Alivizatos committee to discuss electronic vote
The committee overseeing an election to pick the figure who will unite Greece's center-left parties, including PASOK and To Potami, will meet Wednesday to discuss the use of remote electronic voting in the process.
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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.
Theodorakis officially joins center-left leadership race
To Potami chief Stavros Theodorakis has officially announced his candidacy for the leadership election of Greece's new center-left party in November.
"I have decided to play a leading role in the creation of a new, big, progressive movement," Theodorakis says in a 3-minute campaign video made public on Friday.
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.
Theodorakis expected to make leadership bid for Democratic Alignment
Stavros Theodorakis, leader of the centrist To Potami party, has suggested that he will run for the leadership of Democratic Alignment in elections scheduled for October.
New center-left party braces for leadership race
Potential contenders in the Democratic Alignment leadership election will have to declare their candidacy by September 15, Kathimerini reports, adding that campaigning will last for six weeks.
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Opposition criticizes ex-Supreme Court president's posting to PM's legal service
Greece's main opposition party, New Democracy, on Tuesday expressed serious concerns over the appointment of recently retired Supreme Court president Vassiliki Thanou to the head of the prime minister's legal department, calling the decision a "dark page for democracy."
Former PASOK heavyweights launch new political movement
A group of former socialist heavyweights are set to launch "Decision Time," a new centrist political movement on Wednesday.
To Potami to join forces with new center-left movement
To Potami has decided to join forces with Decision Time, a new political movement set up by former socialist heavyweights Anna Diamantopolou, Yiannis Ragousis and Giorgos Floridis, the flagging centrist party said late Sunday.