Panayiotis Rigas
House speaker, SYRIZA officials lay wreath at Polytechnic memorial
House speaker Nikos Voutsis, Education Minister Costas Gavroglou and SYRIZA party secretary Panayiotis Rigas on Wednesday took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial for the November 17, 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship.
PM Samaras and Venizelos sure of vote victory
Coalition leaders Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos expect their government to comfortably survive next Fridays vote of confidence in Parliament.
The two men met for the second time in two days on Thursday and government sources said that both are confident that they will rally the 154 New Democracy and PASOK MPs for the vote.
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Administrative reform minister provides assurances over civil service evaluation
Tweaks to rules on evaluation in the civil service, made by Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday, managed to appease coalition partner PASOK but not opposition parties.