New Democracy has asked and is asking for elections as the only solution to the unresolved problems and deadlocks created by the government, party spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos said in a statement on Tuesday, responding to the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ comments against early elections.
Greek swimmer Spyros Gianniotis won the silver medal in men’s 10-kilometer marathon swimming in Rio’s Olympics on Tuesday, in a tight finish that saw Ferry Weertman from the Netherlands win gold.
Whoever is considering early elections for Greece in September “can only be a fool”, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, during a visit to the village of Kommeno, at the regional unit of Epirus, western Greece, to participate in official events commemorating the execution of 317 inhabitants by Nazi forces in 1943.
The alarm was sounded shortly after noon by the Coast Guard, as a speedboat crashed into atourist boat off the coast of Aegina. Latest information talks of at least three injured and three killed in the crash.