Costas Simitis

There is a certain type of voter that has become rare and increasingly frustrated. These people used to make up a small but critical mass that decided political developments. They were the centrist voters who moved toward the left to elect Socialist Costas Simitis as prime minister, before shifting to the right to elect Costas Karamanlis, a conservative.

The first round of voting this coming Sunday to elect a leader for the "new center-left party" - as everyone is calling the coalition that will emerge from the process - is basically the first step in an effort to glue back together all the different pieces that resulted from the fragmentation of the socialist PASOK party.

One day after she announced that the socialists will hold an emergency congress later this year, PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Wednesday met with former prime minister and party chief Costas Simitis.

Former Socialist Prime Minister Costas Simitis said on Tuesday that he "fears" the way negotiations are being conducted with the country's international creditors, and that Greece could be heading for an "accident."

"Instead of 'Little Greece' we need a serious Greece," former Prime Minister Costas Simitis told the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday.

The US president's visit to Athens undoubtedly constitutes the most closely followed event of recent days. It is of paramount significance to note that this is the first trip made by any sitting president of the United States to our country, which does not coincide with the involvement of either party in fierce diplomatic or military disputes. During Dwight D.

PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata lashed out on Saturday against the SYRIZA-led coalition and opposition New Democracy, essentially describing them as two sides of the same coin.

Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.

On Monday night, Thomas Liakounakos, aged 67, and a retired former high-ranking military officer were taken into custody. The high-profile businessman was apprehended from his home in upmarket Psychiko after an arrest warrant was issued in relation to charges stemming from a case involving a contract with Swedish multi-national Ericsson.

The Greek debt crisis officially began in 2009 and, after failed dead end policies and lack of real change, it is going strong. Here are the seven prime minister that have lead Greece over the last eight years.