SYRIZA

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the election of Katerina Sakellaropoulou as Greece's new president on Wednesday saying that the figure, a former top judge, symbolized "the country's transition to a new era."

Conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has excoriated Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras regarding both the annual bonus of half a month's pension that will for the first time be distributed to pensioners before the 26 May European Parliament election and regarding the government's interpretation of his reference to "seven-day work".

Main opposition New Democracy has rejected PM Alexis Tsipras' challenge to Kyriakos Mitsotakis to hold a televised debate before the European Parliament election on 26 May.

Tsipras first threw down the gauntlet in Parliament and today SYRIZA spokesperson Rania Svigou reissued the invitation in a letter to New DemocΓεια σου, ggilsonracy spokesperson Maria Zacharaki.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Parliament today that main opposition New Democracy is undermining the crucial changes that are needed in the constitutional revision that will be completed by the Parliament that emerges after the forthcoming general election.

Three police officers were injured on Thursday night as they tried to prevent a mob of residents opposed to the Prespes agreement from reaching the home of a government MP in Katerini in northern Greece.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has reiterated his opposition to the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), calling on President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to summon the Political Leaders' Council and scrap it if the deal does not safeguard Greece from its northern neighbor's irredentism.

Giorgos Lazaridis, the independent MP who stepped down from Independent Greeks (ANEL) on Tuesday, reducing the governing coalition's majority to 152 lawmakers in the 300-seat House, has denied accusations that he was bribed into leaving the small right-wing party.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is planning to pursue the separation of the Greek state from the Church ahead of an upcoming a review of the Constitution and as part of a broader bid to push opposition New Democracy further right on the political spectrum and gain some of the middle ground, Kathimerini understands. 

Twenty suspected members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) were detained in Athens on Monday night after interrupting an event at which Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was speaking.

New Democracy vowed on Tuesday not to drop its efforts to hold the government to account over the stalled deal to sell ammunition to Saudi Arabia despite MPs deciding to discuss the possibility of scrapping the agreement altogether.