Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, has suffered a damaging setback as nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership.

Greece’s main opposition party has suffered a split after a left-wing faction announced it was breaking away, accusing the party’s recently elected leader of abandoning its core ideology for a sort of “right-wing populism.”.

Greece’s left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras has announced his decision to step down after a crushing election defeat.

Greece’s center-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been sworn in as prime minister for a second consecutive term.

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks.

Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin.

Greece is heading toward a new general election two days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy party won a landslide victory in a national vote but failed to clinch a majority in parliament.

Greece faces new national elections as early as June 25, after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirmed he wouldn't try to build a coalition government — despite having dominated the ballot hours earlier by the most decisive margin in half a century.

The conservative party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide election victory Sunday but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government outright.

Sunday’s Greek parliamentary election looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season.

Greece’s main opposition party says it won't participate in parliamentary votes until a general election is held later this year.

Lawmakers in Greece have approved legislation banning commercial spyware and reforming rules for legally-sanctioned wiretaps following allegations that senior government officials and journalists had been targeted by shadowy surveillance software.

A censure motion brought by the main opposition party against the Greek government over its handling of a severe snowstorm last Monday has been rejected after a three-day debate.

Faced with a surge in coronavirus infections and a wave of violent anti-government demonstrations, Greeces center-right prime minister accused political opponents Friday March 12, 2021, of exploiting lockdown fatigue. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)ATHENS – Faced with a surge in coronavirus infections and a wave of violent anti-government demonstrations, Greece’s center-right prime minister accused political opponents Friday of exploiting lockdown fatigue. Speaking in parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed opposition parties had acted irresponsibly and ignored his appeals for calm. Alexis Tsipras, a former prime minister and current left-wing opposition leader, argued that the government’s use of heavy-handed policing had backfired. “I am speaking as the health minister and not through party affiliation,” Vassilis Kikilias said during a health briefing.

A spat has erupted over competing claims that the prime minister and his main rival broke the spirit of pandemic restrictions that have renewed financial hardship for many voters. Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was photographed last weekend posing with his mountain bike, without a mask, alongside five motocross riders on a hillside trail outside Athens. Greece's lockdown rules exempt people who've gone outdoors for exercise, including cycling, from the obligation to wear a mask. Greece’s pandemic death toll reached close to 3,100 on Monday, with most deaths occurring after Nov. 1. The current lockdown was launched on Nov. 7 and initially planned to last for three weeks.

The leader of the ruling SDSM party Zoran Zaev wearing a face mask celebrates his victory at the North Macedonia general election, in Skopje, early Tuesday, July 16, 2020. A suspected hacking attack caused the site of North Macedonia's electoral commission to crash for hours after polls closed in the country's national elections Wednesday, delaying preliminary results that showed the Social Democrats narrowly leading the center-right opposition. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)SKOPJE North Macedonia's pro-Western Social Democrats said they were ready Thursday to start complicated power-sharing negotiations after winning a narrow election victory in a poll held up for months by the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's Social Democrats declared victory after receiving 36% of the vote with 94% of ballots counted, according to official results. Coalition talks will involve parties representing the countrys ethnic Albanian minority, which makes up nearly a quarter of the countrys 2.1 million population.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis of New Democracy thanked the Greek people in a victory speech, saying, "I know the difficulties lying ahead. He added, "Transparency and meritocracy will return to Greece and our country's voice will be heard in Europe." Initial projections for the ruling Syriza, Coalition of the Radical Left party, give it 31.6% of the vote. Mitsotakis is the scion of a Greek political dynasty whose father also served as leader under the same party. Greece was the first country in the last decade to bring grand scale populism to the mainstream European arena.