Simos Kedikoglou

Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said on Monday that the government would do more over the coming days to inform people about the dangers of Golden Dawn after the Neo-Nazi party performed strongly in Athens and Attica in the first round of Sunday’s elections.

SYRIZA denied on Monday that it has plans to seize Greeks’ savings if it comes to power.

SYRIZA accused Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Friday of running scared after New Democracy rejected an appeal from the leftists for a televised debate between the two parties’ leaders, with the conservatives accusing the opposition of simply making the request for show.

The spokesman for leftist opposition SYRIZA, Panos Skourletis, on Friday relayed to government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras' proposal for a televised debate with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

The 1967-1974 junta cost Greece “valuable time” and took the country backwards, President Karolos Papoulias said Monday in a statement marking the 47 years since a group of Greek Army colonels ordered tanks onto the streets and suspended the democratic process.

With European and local authority elections looming, the political exchanges between co-ruling New Democracy and the main leftist opposition SYRIZA have intensified even as a new party casting itself as anti-establishment appears to be drawing support from both parties, according to opinion polls.