Syriza

One of the more controversial Cabinet members of the previous coalition Tsipras government generated yet another firestorm of criticism this week after expressing a view that Greece’s migrant-swamped islands have “cashed in” from the ongoing refugee/migration crisis.

Evangelos Meimarakis, leader of Greek major opposition party, New Democracy (ND) called on all European powers to cooperate in order to solve the pressing problems facing the continent. In an interview to site news247.gr, Meimarakis underlined the need for all Greek political parties supporting Greece’s European prospect to come together after the September 20 elections.

Greeks are to decide on the country’s next political leader on September 20, however the real decisions for the country will be made at the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg on September 11-12. The EU finance ministers will decide on measures to be implemented in Greece immediately after the elections regardless of the “winner”.

The political campaign ahead of the September 20 snap elections in Greece is gathering pace and momentum as the political rhetoric intensifies. The debate on Wednesday night is expected to be a crucial point in the campaign as seven political party leaders face six Greek journalists representing different channels.

The leaders:

Wednesday will witness the first and only televised debate of the seven political leaders whose parties were represented in the outgoing Parliament, sans the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party.
The political “gab fest” will come days before the third time Greek voters are asked to cast their ballot in 2015.

The first “love letters” by the Greek tax bureau to collect this year’s property taxes — the controversial “Enfia” levy, as the acronym reads in Greek — will be mailed in late September, i.e. after the Sept. 20 snap election.

Speaking at a press conference in the framework of the 2015 Thessaloniki EXPO, leader of Popular Unity part, Panagiotis Lafazanis said the his former party SYRIZA had been forced to a ‘humiliating resignation’.

// 19 parties and 5 coalition groups have registered to participate in the upcoming September 20 elections. The 1st Section of the Supreme Court is expected to decide on which parties will take part in the coming elections.

The 19 parties and their leaders are:

1) Radical Left Coalition SYRIZA (Alexis Tsipras)

The full amount allocated to political parties during the second elections of the year due to take place on September 20 is a staggering 3,532,000 euros. This amount is 500,000 euros less than the 4,036,000 euros that had been given to political parties in the January 25 elections at the start of the year.

Greece’s former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who lives in a humble working-class flat with Betty and his two sons, spent summer on an isolated island known as Ereikoussa or at least that’s the publicised part of his vacation that the public were privy to.