SYRIZA: The Rise And Fall Of The Cult Left-Wing Party In Europe - Reflections On The Right Wing

 SYRIZA- The rise and fall of the cult left-wing party in Europe - Reflections on the right wing
Rise to the top  The foundation of the leftist movement in Greece is the SYNASPISMOS coalition, which was established in 1991. SYNASPISMOS was also one of the founders of the Party of the European Left (PEL) in Rome in 2004. In Greece, the successor of SYNASPISMOS is the radical-left coalition named SYRIZA, which is actually the syllabic abbreviation of the full name of the coalition in Greek. SYRIZA was established in 2004 by several leftist and extreme-left parties. The first president of SYRIZA was Alekos Alavanos (1950). He is a moderate left-wing politician and was the party leader until 2008. These years were filled with numerous tensions between the coalition partners and marked by modest results at parliamentary and local elections. Many in Greece associated these two parties with anarchist groups, which frequently caused unrests in Greece. 
In that period PASOK (member of the Party of European Socialists - PES) sovereignly held the left-center, while the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was more left-wing oriented than the PASOK. SYRIZA occupied a small space left of PASOK's. No one expected that a party promoting a radical leftist ideology would ever rule the country. 
Alexis Tsipras (1974) was elected as the President of SYRIZA in June 2009. The coalition was registered as a political party in 2012. Tsipras was the one who headed the process of its transition from being a marginal left-wing party to a qualified majority in the Greek parliament. In January 2015, as a result of the victory in the parliamentary elections, Tsipras was elected as the new Prime Minister of Greece....