Adonis Georgiades

The office of former health minister Adonis Georgiadis was targeted by arsonists in the early hours of Thursday.

According to initial reports, unknown assailants used three cooking gas canisters to carry out the attack which caused some damage to the conservative politician's office entrance located on the fifth floor of a central Athens building.

Government spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi on Tuesday called on all parties to condemn Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis for his “attempt to terrorize” New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis.

Maziotis issued a statement arguing that Georgiadis should be “executed in front of thousands of people in Syntagma Square and his corpse be hung upside down... like Benito Mussolini.”

 Checks reveal suspect invoices, prompting health provider to call prosecutors

Greece’s main healthcare provider, EOPYY, will not pay some 40 million euros it owes to private clinics because checks have revealed discrepancies in the invoices forwarded to the organization, it was revealed Tuesday.

A delegation of MPs from leftist SYRIZA met on Thursday with Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras in the wake of comments by the spokesman for New Democracy's parliamentary group, Adonis Georgiadis, according to which a potential rise to power by the leftists would spark a huge bank run.

Ex-Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis stoked controversy on Tuesday when he said that he would withdraw his money from Greek banks if the coalition collapses.

Speaking on a morning show on Mega TV, Georgiadis said that the potential of a SYRIZA election victory would lead to a bank run.

A SYRIZA victory in an early general election would cause a bank run, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has warned according to reports.

Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed opposition on Friday to New Democracy’s apparent plans to bring back into the fold politicians who had left the party in the past and went on to be part of what he termed “populist” parties.

Adonis Georgiadis will be New Democracy's new parliamentary spokesman, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said after a meeting between the two men in Athens Thursday.

“He is one of the party's worthiest, most skilled and most combative members,” Samaras said of the former health minister praising his willingness to push with necessary reforms.

By Alexis Papachelas

We have been caught up in a vicious circle and I don’t know if or how we can get out of it. While we constantly complain about the quality of those governing and representing Greece, we go on to elect the worst the country has to offer to the European Parliament.

Conservative Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis on Thursday denied any contacts with Golden Dawn lawmaker Christos Pappas.

“I have certainly never spoken to him. What Golden Dawn tried to do yesterday was to sling mud on everyone, [and it did so] for obvious political reasons,” Georgiadis said of Pappas who is currently in the capital's high-security Korydallos Prison pending trial.