Democratic Left

Fofi Genimata, the leader of the new center-left party, Movement for Change, said on Wednesday that the members of its political council will be announced on Friday.

Kathimerini understands that the council will be small and will include the main proponents for the new party's creation and the candidates that ran for its leadership.

The head of centrist To Potami, Stavros Theodorakis, is expected to formally announce on Friday his running for the leadership of a new center-left party that will be formed in October.

Thanasis Theocharopoulos, leader of the minor Democratic Left (DIMAR) party, has said he will announce next week if he will run for the leadership of Greece's nascent center-left party.

Golden Dawn lost an MP Saturday after Dimitris Koukoutsis declared himself an independent, reducing the far-right party's representation in the 300-seat Parliament to 17 seats from 18.

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos confirmed that the country was planning on upgrading the F-16 aircraft and spending money on the maintenance of the S-300 defence missile system, during parliamentary question time. “We are aware of the economic circumstances.

According to a poll conducted by ALCO on behalf of newspaper ‘Proto Thema’, opposition party New Democracy leads by 3.8% over ruling left SYRIZA party.

New Democracy comes first with 21.1%, while SYRIZA follows with 17.3%.

According to a poll conducted by ALCO to published in newspaper ‘Proto Thema’, opposition party New Democracy (21.1%) lead by 3.8 percent margin against ruling left SYRIZA party (17.3%).

Fotis Kouvelis appeared determined to contribute to a “progressive governance” of Greece and talking to Free Sunday newspaper he didn’t rule out an institutional cooperation’ of the United Movement of European Left with, while he criticized the current leadership of Democratic Left.

Party leaders took the floor of Greek Parliament following a three-day debate on government policies prior to a vote of confidence at dawn on Thursday.

Alco polling company gives left SYRIZA a marginal 0.3% lead against conservative New Democracy (ND) in its newest poll published by news site ‘Newsit.gr’. According to the findings, SYRIZA received 25.3% of the vote, in comparison to New Democracy’s 25%, with extreme right nationalist party Golden Dawn coming in third with 6.2% of those polled saying they intended to vote for it.