Vangelis Meimarakis

Main opposition interim New Democracy (ND) party leader Evangelos Meimarakis is to remain as party leader following crisis talks that took place within the conservative party until late on Monday night.

One day after the cancellation of the elections for the new leader of New Democracy and the turmoil caused afterwards, the candidates and those responsible for the organization of the election process continue to blame each other and make announcements revealing a great gap among New Democracy executives.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy Party leader Evangelos Meimarakis said the problems that arose during the voting of the New Democracy party’s elections was purely “technical and should not have been politicized.” Making statements outside the conservative party headquarters at Syngrou Street on Monday morning, he said: “I entered this process showing respect to my fellow candidates a

The main opposition conservative New Democracy party decided to call off its leadership election that was due to take place on Sunday, November 22, due to technical problems that prevented voters from casting their ballots. The party’s electoral committee decided to postpone the voting procedure after the fiasco was noted.

The elections for the new leader of New Democracy party were postponed due to major technical problems in the online registration system of voters which could not be fixed.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy members will head to the polling booths on Sunday, November 22, to elect their party leader. 781,136 liberal supporters (around a third of the party’s voters) had shown up to vote in the first internal elections held by liberals in November 2009 in relation to the October elections held in that same year.

A new poll conducted by e-voice company for “Eleftheros Typos news agency shows Vagelis Meimarakis and Apostolos Tzitzikostas will give a fight over the leadership of New Democracy on Sunday.

According to the poll, Vangelis Meimarakis slight leads with 33.54% followed by Apostolos Tzitzikostas with 30.2%, Kyriakos Mitsotakis 19.7% and Adonis Georgiadis 10.54%.

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Evangelos Meimarakis attacked the government on the omnibus bill of non performing loans which was “submitted in the middle of the night on emergency procedure after agreeing with the lenders on its translation”.

Main opposition New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis sent a message to terorrists during a speech in Athens. “We are sending a message to terrorists. All the European, democratic forces will act jointly. We will not allow people to be seduced by extreme, populist voices,” he said.

There is a waning interest in the voting process for the head of the main opposition New Democracy party set to take place on November 22.

885 voting centers have been set up in Greece and abroad with 1,284 polling booths in Greece and 44 abroad, however it is expected that few people will show up to vote for a party leader from the four candidates: