No leadership change in SYRIZA, for now

A leadership change in the main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA, will have to wait until the June 25 election, if at all.

It is widely acknowledged, and not just within SYRIZA, that leader Alexis Tsipras is the main factor, other than Greece's deep financial crisis after 2008, that transformed it from a party that could barely make it into Parliament into one that rose to government (January 2015 - July 2019).

With Tsipras still only 48, many SYRIZA supporters are reluctant to ditch the leader responsible for the party's best showings in the polls.

But, it was Tsipras himself, during the last electoral campaign, who, apparently unaware of the voting trends, had said that "if a [political leader] loses by six percentage points, he will obviously face sanctions."

Tsipras, of course, did not resign. With another election ahead, he couldn't, he told the...