Greek Lawmakers Fail in Their Third Attempt to Elect President
Greek lawmakers failed to elect a new president in a third round of voting on Thursday, even with less backing needed than in ...
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Former Greek premier expelled from ruling party
It is not the first time that Mr Samaras has clashed with a Mitsotakis. In 1992, then-prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis, father of the current premier, dismissed Mr Samaras as foreign minister ...
Greek PM’s Pick for President Fails to Be Elected in First Round
Constantine Tassoulas, the premier’s choice for president of the Hellenic Republic, failed to get the necessary majority to win election in a first round of voting by the parliament.
Anger in Greece over rail disaster prompts opposition plan to challenge government
Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its handling of a deadly rail disaster nearly two years ago. The pledge was ...
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Greek PM nominates parliament speaker for presidential post
ATHENS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominated parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas from his centre-right New Democracy party for the Greek presidency on Wednesday.
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Josiah Ober
Josiah Ober is the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Classics at Stanford University. His most recent book is Athenian Legacies: Essays of the Politics ...