Antonis Kotsakas

The resignations on Wednesday of three top executives from SYRIZA's executive bodies are further testing the cohesion of the party that has been riveted by infighting.

Two members of SYRIZA urged the main leftist opposition on Monday to make an overture to the other center-left parties, PASOK and New Left, with the aim of "regenerating the broader left and progressive [political] space."

The famous phrase uttered by the late premier and PASOK leader Andreas Papandreou in 1986 when he expelled then-minister Gerasimos Arsenis from the party after a critical speech the latter gave in Karditsa, has gone down in history: "With his actions, Mr Arsenis has removed himself from the party."