by CBBSS | Sep 7, 2021 | Regional News
Syriza leader Tsipras’s strategy of calling a snap election to tighten his grip on Greek power appears to be backfiring, the Guardian reports. Disillusioned leftists are leaving Syriza in droves, and center-right party New Democracy is now neck and neck with...
by CBBSS | Aug 28, 2021 | Regional News
EU Observer reports Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras is running a risky election strategy of attempting to claim a parliamentary majority in snap elections, even though a large portion of his party has defected. 53 of the 201 members of Syriza’s central...
by CBBSS | Aug 23, 2021 | Regional News
Twenty-five of Syrzia’s 149 MPs broke away from Greece’s governing party on Friday to form a new leftist, anti-austerity party called Popular Unity, the Wall Street Journal reports. On Thursday, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras resigned as prime minister and...
by CBBSS | Aug 20, 2021 | Regional News
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced on television Thursday that he is resigning and calling for an early election, BBC reports. The election is reportedly scheduled to occur on September 20, but the date has yet to be confirmed. Tsipras is facing a rebellion...
by CBBSS | Aug 20, 2021 | Regional News
Reuters reports Greece is likely to hold snaps election on Sept. 20. Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras is attempting to suppress a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party over the new Greek bailout program he is trying to implement. Read original...