SYRIZA internal tensions continue in second day of Central Committee meeting

SYRIZA's internal tensions continued on Sunday, the second day of the party's Central Committee meeting. Sunday's SYRIZA's Central Committee meeting will conclude in the evening with a vote on the party's draft Political Resolution.

After SYRIZA President Stefanos Kasselakis had claimed that he made a phone call to former labor minister Effie Achtsioglou in good faith before Saturday's committee meeting, Achtsioglou denied, according to state broadcaster ERT, that SYRIZA president Stafanos reached out.

Party members commented that the outgoing call was recorded at 11.32 a.m. saying that Achtsioglou may have missed the call. Achtsioglou added that the call was from an unknown number, while at that time she was already present at the meeting's venue.

Since Kasselakis was elected as the new leader of Syriza, the party has been riven with internal strife and...