Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the Greek PASOK party about to address supporters ahead of next weeks elections. The audience was dominated by the party's ageing party base, with those under 40 being a distinct minority.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
PASOK leader on the campaign trail
Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the Greek PASOK party about to address supporters ahead of next weeks elections. The audience was dominated by the party's ageing party base, with those under 40 being a distinct minority.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Conservative leader, Antonis Samaras at election rally - Thessaloniki,Greece
Conservative leader, Antonis Samaras at election rally - Thessaloniki, Greece, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.
About 2000 of the New Democracy party faithful turned out to hear Antonis Samaras address a pre-election rally. Like PASOK the turnout was lacklustre, miniscule compared with the numbers previous party leaders were able to attract in the past.
So, the conservative, Havard educated leader, like his "left-wing" rival, Venizelos had to rely on the power of TV to make up for warm bodies present.
Samaras's speech, liberally peppered with ultra-nationalist demands was carefully honed to appeal to the local audience and while it was warmly received it was little more than a rehash of past, highly improbable promises and emotional calls to voters to give him an overall majority.
The problem with analysing such speeches is that they are less a unified set of ideas than a series of sound bites designed to create an emotional response.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Thursday, June 04, 2009
New Democracy rally in Thessaloniki for the European elections
New Democracy rally in Thessaloniki for the European elections, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.
Amidst torrential rain and lightning, Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis spoke to New Democracy supporters in the northern port city of Thessaloniki last night as part of the country's European election campaign .
Stressing foreign policy issues such as relations with Turkey and Greece's northern neighbour, Macedonia, Karamanlis sought to deflect criticism of the government's domestic record and play down the effects of a series of damaging corruption scandals which have rocked Greece over the last year.
Despite massive publicity bad weather and a general sense of disappointment with the performance of both major parties in the Greek parliament meant that turnout for yesterday's rally was lower than expected.
Greek prime minister addresses crowds in run up to Euro poll | Demotix.com
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