SYRIZA, PASOK vie for the socialists’ heart

After the unlikely choice of an ex-Goldman Sachs banker to lead SYRIZA, the party is considering another revamp of its image, officially moving from the radical-left to the center-left.

Senior SYRIZA officials have proposed a transition from the European United Left-Nordic Green Left (GUE-NGL), the left-wing political group of the European Parliament, to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).

The proposal was put forward by Costas Zachariadis, Thanasis Theocharopoulos and Yannis Ragkousis ahead of the party's conference next month.

"It is time for SYRIZA to decisively declare that it aims to become the main center-left force, the primary representative of the country's big progressive coalition," they said in a statement.

"The battle of the upcoming European and national elections will not be decided on the grounds of the radical...