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*[[February 20]]: Major unions in [[Greece]] stage a 24-hour general strike. | *[[February 20]]: Major unions in [[Greece]] stage a 24-hour general strike. | ||
*[[February 24]]: [[Nikos Anastasiades]] defeats [[Stavros Malas]] in the [[Cyprus]] runoff election and is elected President. Anastasiades polls 57.48% against 42.52% for Malas. | *[[February 24]]: [[Nikos Anastasiades]] defeats [[Stavros Malas]] in the [[Cyprus]] runoff election and is elected President. Anastasiades polls 57.48% against 42.52% for Malas. | ||
| + | *[[February 27]]: Former [[Thessaloniki]] mayor, [[Vasilis Papageorgopoulos]], is sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement of public money. | ||
==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
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Events
January
- January 2: The Athens Stock Exchange starts the new year in good fashion as the General Index closes at 941.26 after gains of 3.67%.
- January 4: The elections for the Presidency of Cyprus are officially proclaimed. The first round will be held on February 17 with the runoff - if necessary - being held one week later.
- January 10: Moody's downgrades Cyprus' government bond rating by three notches: from B3 to Caa3.
- January 20: A time bomb goes off at "The Mall" shopping centre in Maroussi.
- January 26: Athens Metro workers return to work after a 10-day strike.
- January 31: Kostas Filippidis breaks the Greek indoor and overall record in the pole vault with a jump of 5.83m.
February
- February 9: Nikoletta Kyriakopoulou breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the pole vault, at Donetsk, Ukraine, with 4.60m.
- February 10: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.
- February 17: In the Cyprus presidential elections, Nikos Anastasiades, the head of conservative DISY, receives 45.46% of the vote and advances to the runoff against AKEL candidate Stavros Malas who ends up with 26.91% barely edging out Giorgos Lillikas of EDEK.
- February 20: Major unions in Greece stage a 24-hour general strike.
- February 24: Nikos Anastasiades defeats Stavros Malas in the Cyprus runoff election and is elected President. Anastasiades polls 57.48% against 42.52% for Malas.
- February 27: Former Thessaloniki mayor, Vasilis Papageorgopoulos, is sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement of public money.
Deaths
January
- January 2: Nickolas Ambraseys, member of the Academy of Athens.
- January 4: Kostas Alexandridis, one-time president of the Hellenic Football Federation.
- January 4: Nikos Samaras, volleyball player.
- January 14: Dimitris Kastanas, Greek-American TV presenter.
- January 28: Nikolaos Dertilis, general of the Junta era.