Stavros Theodorakis

Eradicating graft is top priority of the government, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Friday adding that the SYRIZA-led administration had the "moral high ground" to deal with the problem.

A lawmaker with To Potami on Tuesday announced his resignation, leaving the centrist party with six seats in the 300-seat House.

Larissa MP Constantinos Bargiotas wrote a letter to party leader Stavros Theodorakis expressing his disappointment with the party's "failure to produce policy."

MP Ilchan Achmet announced Friday he was leaving the centrist To Potami party.

The move leaves the party of Stavros Theodorakis with seven deputies.

In a statement Achmet said he believed in the creation of a big centrist party informed by the values of democracy and social justice that would serve the need for reforms in the country.

Judges at an Athens first instance court on Thursday heard a libel suit brought by Defense Minister and Independent Greeks party chief Panos Kammenos against writer and cartoonist Andreas Petroulakis over an article published on the Protagon website in 2015.

Former PASOK ministers are gearing up for a new attempt to launch a party that will located between SYRIZA and New Democracy on the political spectrum, according to sources.

Centrist Potami was left with eight MPs in Greece's 300-seat Parliament on Monday after the deputy Katerina Markou announced her departure from the party, complaining at the refusal of leader Stavros Theodorakis to cooperate with other parties.

In a letter to Theodorakis, Markou announced her withdrawal and said she would be standing as an independent MP.

A verdict by the country's highest administrative court on Wednesday night overturning a recent tender of broadcasting licenses is a "dire political defeat" for the leftist-led government, opposition New Democracy said on Thursday.

PASOK chief Fofi Gennimata on Monday blamed To Potami for a failure to bring the two parties under the same roof.

Speaking in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, Gennimata said she was still interested in leading a new center-left alliance, even if that did not include Stavros Theodorakis's centrist party.

The owners of the four new TV stations will be meeting with government representatives, later Monday at 3 pm, at Maximos Mansion. The four licence owners will see Minister of State Nikos Pappas, the government spokesperson, Olga Gerovasili and General Secretary of Information and Communication, Lefteris Krestos.

To Potami deputy Haris Theoharis, the former general secretary for public revenues, revealed Tuesday that he is leaving the centrist party to continue as an independent MP.

In a letter to Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis, Theoharis said that he had become disillusioned with the party and felt that it is not providing the voters that supported it with "something new."