The armaments programmes, armed forces' salaries and the modernisation of the infrastructure dominated a meeting on Monday between the national defence ministry's civilian and military leadership and main opposition SYRIZA-PA President Stefanos Kasselakis, who was accompanied on his visit by retired Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, a former defence minister and armed forces' chief.

The Political Secretariat of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance condemned the mass resignations from the party on Thursday.

In the following days, the first - institutional - meeting of the president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance Stefanos Kasselakis with the president of PASOK-KINAL Nikos Androulakis has been planned.