Difference between revisions of "2008"

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January 1: The euro replaces the pound as the currency of Cyprus.
January 8: An Athens court granted parole to Costas Agapiou, the last jailed member of ELA, three years into his 25-year prison term.
January 15: Greek Australian fans are maced by Victoria Police during an Australian Open match between Konstantinos Economidis and Chile's Fernando Gonzalez.
January 16: Olympiakos humble Panathinaikos 4-0 to advance into the Greek Football Cup's quarterfinal round.
January 23: PM Costas Karamanlis visits Turkey marking the first official visit by a Greek PM to that country since 1959.
January 31: New Democracy (ND) deputy Costas Koukodimos announces that he was leaving the party's Parliamentary group and to become an independent. His resignation reduced New Democracy's majority in the 300-seat house to just 151.

February 2: A group of extreme leftists clashed with right-wing (Chrysi Avgi) demonstrators, injuring at least three people and prompting riot police to fire tear gas and blockade streets in central Athens.
February 7: Metropolitan Hieronymus of Thebes is elected Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
February 7: Alekos Alavanos, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), bid farewell to Greek politics and called for his party to fight the dominance of PASOK and New Democracy.
February 10: Alexis Tsipras was elected the new leader for the Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (SYN) party, with an overwhelming majority of 70.41%, at the party's 5th Congress.
February 12: AEK Athens sack Spanish coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer.
February 13: Unions call a general strike throughout Greece to protest the Karamanlis government proposed pension reform law.
February 17: Ioannis Kasoulidis wins the first round of the Cyprus presidential elections with 33.51%. AKEL chairman, Dimitris Christofias places second with 33.29%. Incumbent President, Tasos Papadopoulos is eliminated from the runoff as he places third with 31.79%.
February 24: AKEL chairman, Dimitris Christofias, is elected President of Cyprus, receiving 53.36% of the votes cast in the runoff against MEP Ioannis Kasoulidis.

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 *[[February 13]]: Unions call a general strike throughout Greece to protest the [[Costas Karamanlis|Karamanlis]] government proposed pension reform law.
 *[[February 17]]: [[Ioannis Kasoulidis]] wins the first round of the [[Cyprus]] presidential elections with 33.51%. [[AKEL]] chairman, [[Dimitris Christofias]] places second with 33.29%. Incumbent President, [[Tasos Papadopoulos]] is eliminated from the runoff as he places third with 31.79%.
-*[[February 24]]: [[AKEL]] chairman, [[Dimitris Christofias]], is elected President of [[Cyprus]], receiving 53.46% of the votes cast in the runoff against MEP [[Ioannis Kasoulidis]].
+*[[February 24]]: [[AKEL]] chairman, [[Dimitris Christofias]], is elected President of [[Cyprus]], receiving 53.36% of the votes cast in the runoff against MEP [[Ioannis Kasoulidis]].
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