SYRIZA senior members slam party leader over expulsion notice 

Three senior members of the main opposition have slammed an overnight decision by SYRIZA's new leader to expel them for openly criticising his views, saying that it is up to the party's ethics committee to push out members.

SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis announced late Monday he was expelling Nikos Filis, Panos Skourletis and Dimitris Vitsas, all former ministers, for acting as "TV sponsors" of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The move came as all three have repeatedly accused Kasselakis on media of lacking a clear political ideology. The publication, earlier this week, of articles he wrote about a decade ago and which recommended policies blasted by the Greek left as neo-liberal, redoubled their criticism.

"I am a member of SYRIZA. Mr Kasselakis cannot take away my status. There are procedures and statutes," Filis told Open TV on Tuesday. "Mr Kasselakis...