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SYRIZA tries garner Muslim support ahead of July 7 elections
Top ranking SYRIZA ministers and Athens council officials are scheduled to visit the Islamic Mosque in Votanikos tomorrow.
Ruling SYRIZA candidates convincingly defeated in all major municipal races; Attica goes to ND
New Democracy-backed Costas Bakoyannis handily defeated ruling SYRIZA party's candidate, Nasos Iliopoulos, in the Athens mayoral race during the second round of local government elections across the country on Sunday, polling 65.2 percent to the latter's 34.75 percent, and with nearly 99 percent of the vote counted.
Opposition reaction to prospect of new top judicial officials days before snap election
The prospect of the now "lame duck" Tsipras government nominating and then ratifying - via its slim Parliament majority - candidates for the country's top judicial posts ignited a firestorm of criticism early this week, particularly after a government spokesman on Tuesday said a snap election will take place on July 7.