Socialist Party

PASOK sources rule out expedited leadership race amid election disappointment

Sources within PASOK on Wednesday dismissed the idea of expediting the leadership elections in response to the socialist party's lackluster performance in the recent European Parliament elections.

"We will not allow the party to sink into navel-gazing," the sources said.

PASOK MP calls for leadership change following lackluster election performance

PASOK MP Odysseas Konstantinopoulos has called for a leadership change within the socialist party following the disappointing outcome of the recent European election.

PASOK ranked third, trailing behind main SYRIZA opposition, securing 12.79% of the vote and three seats. Leader Nikos Androulakis had aimed for a second-place finish.

Catalan separatist aims to form minority regional gov’t

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Monday that he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in the Spanish region despite a weekend electoral setback.

Spain's governing Socialist Party won a regional election in Catalonia on May 12, snatching away separatist parties' majority.

Separatists lose Catalan majority as Spain Socialists surge

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won a clear victory in Sunday's Catalan regional election, in which Carles Puigdemont and fellow separatists lost their majority after 10 years in power.

The vote came six years after Puigdemont led a botched 2017 independence bid that triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades.

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