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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – The priority now for SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance is to “overcome the shock, regroup and correct our mistakes,” said party leader Alexis Tsipras in his interview to Star TV’s main newscast on Tuesday evening, speaking about the party’s low performance at the May 21 elections.
In his first television interview after the elections, when Syriza’s performance dropped 20 percentage points from leading New Democracy, Tsipras insisted that his party remains “the only political force with an alternative plan of governance to that of New Democracy.”
Speaking of what he called a painful and unexpected electoral result, Tsipras said that on election night he thought about resigning. “But after overcoming the shock, I realized that I do not have the right to desert the battle,” he added.
The party leader attributed the low electoral results within the party “and in the way we spread our message.” In particular, he said, the party presented a confusing image and members speaking to the media presented “unfortunate statements”. The simple proportional system Syriza introducted “remains our dream, but the political system was not ready to accept it,” he said, referring to the party’s attempts at a coalition government. In addition, he said, the majority of the voters appeared to prefer single-party governments, not coalitions.
Blaming a fear-mongering propaganda against his party, Tsipras said that people in May voted “talking about the misinformation that Syriza planned to raise social insurance contributions, instead of New Democracy’s leaving freelancers and farmers without medical and health insurance.”
“I too,” he said, “did not manage to steer the conversation to the higher stakes, about how the country will be governed over the next four years,” he added.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.