Tsipras government

The resignation of a newly sworn-in deputy minister in the day-old leftist Tsipras government isn’t the first time a deputy affiliated with the rightist-populist Independent Greeks’ party (AN.EL) has attracted a firestorm of criticism for preposterous and odious posts.

The first “crack” in the day-old second Tsipras government of 2015 swirled around a deputy minister from the rightist-populist Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party, whose social media accounts were punctuated by a series of anti-Semitic and racists posts.

Greece’s liabilities to the euro zone’s bank payment system climbed in July to highs not seen since 2012, as fears that the SYRIZA-led country would exit the euro zone emptied bank vaults, figures announced by the European Central Bank showed on Monday.

Left-wing SYRIZA party has won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's early elections which will give former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the opportunity to renew his alliance with Independent Greeks and form a coalition government, ekathimerini.com reported.

With 70% of the votes counted, SYRIZA had 35.43%, which would translate into 144 seats in Parliament.

I spent the whole month of August and the first part of September in Athens. I was there just after the painful negotiations of Alexis Tsipras' team in Brussels with Greece's creditors, when he had to capitulate to a new three-year bailout agreement that would secure a further 86 billion euros, but under tough terms and constant monitoring.

Hellas Gold CEO Mihalis Theodorakopoulos told a Thessaloniki-area radio station on Wednesday that his company was “ready for dialogue” if the government elected on Sept. 20 wants to renegotiate the gold mining projects at the Skouries site in eastern Halkidiki prefecture.

SYRIZA heavyweight Alekos Flambouraris incited a political tempest following Proto Thema’s investigation into his business ventures.

The now former coalition partner in SYRIZA’s seven-month government until August, outspoken ex-DM Panos Kammenos, on Friday continued to target Yanis Varoufakis with indirect allegations and innuendo about the latter’s intentions while finance minister.

Sources from the caretaker government on Friday dismissed high-profile criticism by the former foreign minister, who claimed that the previous Tsipras government had instructed the country’s diplomatic mission at the UN to vote in favor of an Argentine resolution on unmanageable sovereign debts.

Bombastic Greek lawmaker Panos Kammenos, the head of the populist-rightist and formerly anti-memorandum Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party, on Thursday accused Yanis Varoufakis of working towards a Grexit that would benefit, amongst others, US-based hedge funds!