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There is a waning interest in the voting process for the head of the main opposition New Democracy party set to take place on November 22.

885 voting centers have been set up in Greece and abroad with 1,284 polling booths in Greece and 44 abroad, however it is expected that few people will show up to vote for a party leader from the four candidates:

Conservative New Democracy interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis stormed into the party’s 1st floor headquarters at Syngrou Avenue during the party’s central election committee (KEFE) meeting. He sought out his representative, Theodore Abatzoglou, and said, “Let’s go Theodore! We aren’t going to participate in a procedure that humiliates the party.”

Greece’s main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is set to elect its new leader on November 22, the party’s central election committee announced on Thursday.

If a second round of vote is needed, it will be held the following Sunday, on November 29.

The election committee of New Democracy will reconvene at 09.30 on Saturday to decide on whether to accept the rejected fourth candidacy of New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis, after disapproving comments from all three candidates and the former ND leader Antonis Samaras.

The main opposition New Democracy party’s interim president Vangelis Meimarakis on Thursday officially announced his bid for the party’s leadership in the upcoming internal elections.

Evangelos Meimarakis will join the candidacy race for New Democracy leadership by announcing his participation today at 18.30 Ledra Marriott hotel.

According to information, Mr. Meimarakis will present the list of the members who signed in favor of his candidacy.

Outspoken conservative New Democracy deputy and former minister Adonis Georgiadis is the third contender for the party’s helm, announcing his candidacy on Monday evening.

Georgiadis is a relative newcomer to ND, arriving from the rightist-populist LA.OS party before it collapsed in the 2012 election. He represents the right-wing of the party.

Central Macedonian Region Chief Apostolos Tzitzikostas, aged 37, announced his candidacy for the leadership of the New Democracy (ND) Party on Sunday night. The young man’s bid for the leadership, following that of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, aged 47, lowers the age bar for the party’s control from current leader Evangelos Meimarakis, aged 62.

The race is on for a leader of the main opposition New Democracy party with candidacies being gathered from noon on Friday, September 25, until 6 p.m. on Friday, October 2. Speculation is rife, however the only conservative candidate that has so far outwardly expressed an interest in the leadership is Kyriakos Mitsotakis who announced his candidacy on Wednesday.

Hundreds of teachers from all levels of the Greek education system gathered outside Parliament on Tuesday evening following the invitation of the group, “Education 2015″ (Paideia 2015). Shouting slogans against the Education Minister Aristidis Baltas and the government’s education reforms, such as “No to Baltas! No to the flattening of Education!” “Baltas to Baltas!