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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-05-15
CONTENTS
[01] Greece poised for new election; talks fail
[02] Thessaloniki Jewish community slams ultra-nationalist's views
on Holocaust
[01] Greece poised for new election; talks fail
AMNA / Greece is poised for new elections, after Greek President Karolos
Papoulias' last-ditch efforts with the leaders of political parties
elected to Parliament in the May 6 general elections failed on Tuesday
to forge an agreement for a coalition government. amna
The meeting ended just before 4 p.m. (14.00 GMT) after nearly four hours
of deliberations amongst New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras,
Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, PASOK leader
Evangelos Venizelos, Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos --
the top four of the seven parties elected to parliament in the May 6
polls -- and Democratic Left (7th place) party leader Fotis Kouvelis.
Communist Party (KKE, 5th place) leader Aleka Papariga refused
to attend, while the leader of the 7th party in Parliament, the
ultra-natioalist Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn) Nikos Mihaloliakos was not
invited. www.amna.gr
[02] Thessaloniki Jewish community slams ultra-nationalist's views
on Holocaust
AMNA / The Jewish community of Thessaloniki on Tuesday characterised
the views of an ultra-nationalist party leader's positions on the
WWII Holocaust as being "ignorant of history…promoting fanaticism,
intolerance and racism, (ones) laying the foundations for similar words
and actions."
In response to televised statements by ultra-nationalist Chryssi Avghi
(Golden Dawn) leader Nikos Mihaloliakos to a private TV news programme
on Sunday evening, the Jewish community underlined that "comparing the
Holocaust to the outcome of war operations and doubting the annihilation
of six million Jews in Europe, among them 77,377 Greek Jews, including
50,000 Thessaloniki Jews, is an insult to the survivors of the Nazi
concentration camps and to the memory of those brutally murdered in
gas chambers and crematoriums, the existence of which is denied by
Mihaloliakos." amna
The Jewish community also called on society, headed by the
representatives of the institutions of the Greek state, to isolate such
voices and protect historical memory. www.amna.gr
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