Costas Karagounis

New Democracy (ND) spokesman Costas Karagounis on Tuesday submitted his resignation to party leader Evangelos Meimarakis for typical reasons.

Political developments in crisis-plagued and still bailout-dependent Greece continued on Tuesday, given that snap elections are now foreseen for late September, or at the latest, in the first week of October.

New Democracy suggested Tuesday that the government has no intention of seeking an agreement with the institutions and is instead focused on a rift that could lead Greece out of the euro.

Having returned from the European Union leaders? summit in Riga on Friday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to meet with SYRIZA members on Saturday to brief them on the course of negotiations with the country?s lenders.

The main opposition conservative New Democracy (ND) party accused the government of being unreliable following a press report in a Greek newspaper, according to which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is alleged to have sent a letter to the IMF, warning the Fund of Greece’s likely bankruptcy.

New Democracy on Friday slammed a new citizenship bill put up for public consultation as constituting an ?open invitation? to undocumented migrants.

All they would have to do, said spokesman Costas Karagounis, ?is enroll their child in first grade and automatically receive a residence permit for themselves and their family.?

Opposition parties rounded on the government on Thursday, accusing it of lacking a strategy in its negotiations with lenders and simply hoping for the best.

Greece's radical leftwing head of parliament has been criticized by opposition parties for posting videos on the parliament's website promoting her project to investigate the country's crippling debt.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis appeared on Thursday to have fallen for a clever hoax by a German satirical television presenter after the latter indicated that a video of the minister apparently making a rude finger gesture had not been faked as had been originally claimed.

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