Parliamentary Group

OpenCalais Metadata: Ticker

OpenCalais Metadata: LegalName

British-Japanese Parliamentary Group

SYRIZA: Central Committee to proceed as planned tomorrow, political secretariat decides – Move to exclude Kasselakis from elections

Tomorrow is shaping up to be the “mother of all battles” within SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, as the Central Committee meeting will go ahead as scheduled.

Marios Salmas is now also expelled from New Democracy

Marios Salmas has been expelled from New Democracy after being ousted from the party’s parliamentary group earlier today.

“By decision of Maria Syreggela, the Secretary of the New Democracy Political Committee, Mr. Marios Salmas is expelled from the party,” announced ND headquarters in Piraeus.

The announcement regarding Salmas’ expulsion from ND’s Parliamentary Group stated:

Deadlock in SYRIZA: Kasselakis does not want elections or a motion of no confidence, referred Polakis & the ’87’ to the conference

SYRIZA’s president, Stefanos Kasselakis, ultimately did not take up the challenge, as despite the requests from Polakis, Gerovasili, and the ’87’ to appeal to the base for a leadership election, he referred any internal