New Democracy
Meimarakis: Current parliament must form government
Evangelos Meimarakis, leader of major opposition party New Democracy (ND) repeated that forming a government was still possible, in an interview to Skai TV, Tuesday. The leader of ND said Tsipras is holding the elections so that he can lose and ‘run away’, while he accused the Greek PM of representing economic interests.
ND Meimarakis receives mandate to form government from President Pavlopoulos-Meets with Parliament head Konstantopoulou
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New Democracy leader Meimarakis says we will reconsider backing government
The leader of New Democracy, Greece’s main opposition party, Vangelis Meimarakis said on Monday he would reconsider his party’s support to the upcoming bills in parliament, following the revelations of former Greek Finance Minister Yanis varoufakis’s plan B that involved hacking millions of citizens’ tax codes.
Meimarakis to serve as ND president until spring; same party election process
A compromise has more-or-less been reached in terms of main opposition New Democracy’s leadership, with current interim president Vangelis Meimarakis expected to serve until the spring of 2016 until a party election.
However, the same election process will be employed, namely, election by the party’s grass roots.
Opposition leader to SYRIZA govt: Country was in better shape before you took power
Main opposition leader New Democracy (ND) leader Vangelis Meimarakis, while mostly expressing a conciliatory tone, emphasised on Friday that the country was in a much better conditions six months ago, before a leftist SYRIZA government came to power.
Meimarakis-Pavlopoulos meeting: ND leader wants a huge "yes" to Europe!
The provisional conservative leader of the main opposition New Democracy party, Vangelis Meimarakis, met with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Mansion at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday.
Blog: With the setting of the sun, the ‘no’ vote came with the breeze
By Debbie Papadakis
ND’s Samaras, former PM, resigns in wake of ‘no’ vote
New Democracy (ND) president Antonis Samaras announced his resignation on Sunday evening in the wake of the landslide “no” vote in the same-day referendum .
The former prime minister said that ex-parliament president Vangelis Meimarakis will take over the post as a transitional party president until a party congress is convened to elect a new ND leader.
Tsipras: Greeks Determined to Take Control of Their Own Destiny in Referendum
Greeks are determined to decide their own destiny in Sunday's bailout referendum, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said after casting his ballot in Athens.
"No one can ignore the will of the people to live, to live with determination, to take its destiny into its own hands," Tsipras said, according to AFP.
Samaras: Tsipras, SYRIZA wanted to take Greece out of euro all along
Main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras on Friday again charged that Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was flat out lying the Greek people and simply aiming to take the country out of the eurozone.
He also charged that the radical leftist leader was intentionally misinterpreting an IMF report on Greece’s debt sustainability, which was released on Thursday.