Early election on way?

Greece moved a step closer to the prospect of early elections yesterday after a New Democracy MP was ousted from the party for criticizing several of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis’s close advisers, a move that left the ruling conservatives with a parliamentary majority of just one.

Stavros Dailakis, a deputy representing Drama in northeastern Greece, was sacked after he appeared on TV and radio shows yesterday morning and suggested that Karamanlis should fire government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos, the head of the prime minister’s press office, Yiannis Andrianos, and the head of his political office, Yiannis Angelou.

The MP was asked to resign, which would have allowed another ND politician to replace him in Parliament, but he refused, forcing the prime minister to live up to his pledge of getting tough on internal critics.
eKathimerini