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Tsipras favored to lead center-left alliance, poll shows
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras is seen as the best candidate to lead an alliance of center-left parties, according to a poll by GPO aired on Star TV late Thursday.
PASOK leader ready to defend position amid party turmoil
PASOK president Nikos Androulakis said on Monday that he is ready to hold a party leadership race after coming under fire for the socialist party's mediocre performance in the European elections.
Athens Mayor Haris Doukas steps into debate about the future of center-left
In an interview with Kathimerini on Sunday, Haris Doukas, who won the Athens mayoral election with support from PASOK in October last year, discusses the future of the Greek center-left following the recent European Parliament elections.
Shouldn’t we rethink how we elect MEPs?
The reason why the custom of voting for candidates as we do in national elections instead of political parties and their fixed, and ranked, list of nominees for the European Parliament did not stem from a matter of principle, from a desire to give the people the right to choose their representatives.
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Pressure on Androulakis grows after European election setback
PASOK MEP Nikos Papandreou has entered the ongoing debate about the future of the socialist party's leadership following disappointing results in the recent European elections.
PASOK sources rule out expedited leadership race amid election disappointment
Sources within PASOK on Wednesday dismissed the idea of expediting the leadership elections in response to the socialist party's lackluster performance in the recent European Parliament elections.
"We will not allow the party to sink into navel-gazing," the sources said.
PASOK MP calls for leadership change following lackluster election performance
PASOK MP Odysseas Konstantinopoulos has called for a leadership change within the socialist party following the disappointing outcome of the recent European election.
PASOK ranked third, trailing behind main SYRIZA opposition, securing 12.79% of the vote and three seats. Leader Nikos Androulakis had aimed for a second-place finish.
France – EU Elections 2024: Le Monde’s poll shows LePen leading with 33%
There is a battle for the second position with Macron’s party moving around 16% & the Socialist Party close to 14.5%
Catalan separatist aims to form minority regional gov’t
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Monday that he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in the Spanish region despite a weekend electoral setback.
Spain's governing Socialist Party won a regional election in Catalonia on May 12, snatching away separatist parties' majority.
Separatists lose Catalan majority as Spain Socialists surge
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won a clear victory in Sunday's Catalan regional election, in which Carles Puigdemont and fellow separatists lost their majority after 10 years in power.
The vote came six years after Puigdemont led a botched 2017 independence bid that triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades.