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Greece’s New Democracy Opposition Party to Elect New Leader This Month

© AFP 2023 / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI A torn Greek flag flutters at a coast near Antirio, southwest of Athens on August 9, 2015
A torn Greek flag flutters at a coast near Antirio, southwest of Athens on August 9, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Leadership elections of Greece’s New Democracy conservative opposition party – the main challenger of the left-wing Syriza - are scheduled for December 20.

ATHENS (Sputnik) – According to the party’s election committee, a second round of elections will be held on January 10.

The New Democracy elections were originally scheduled for November 22, but were cancelled because of technical problems at polling stations.

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Evangelos Meimarakis, a candidate for the party’s president, stepped down as temporary leader of New Democracy after the vote was called off. Yiannis Plakiotakis then took over as New Democracy’s interim president.

The new leader of the New Democracy party, to be elected later this month, will become the main rival of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his ruling Syriza party.

Syriza has been losing popularity as it has failed to follow through on its promise to revise Greece’s austerity measures after securing victory in the January elections.

On Thursday, Greeks held a general strike protesting against austerity measures, demanded by the country's international lenders in return for an 86-billion-euro (about $91 billion at the current rate) third bailout package, agreed by Tsipras in July.

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