Giorgos Karameros

The debate on the budget in the House of Representatives turned out to be a foretaste of the new political period ushered in by the advent of 2025, with the Syriza Progressive Alliance emerging unscathed from the vote, but from the benches of what is now the third parliamentary power in the plenary chamber.

Journalist and SYRIZA MP Giorgos Karameros has been appointed the party's new press spokesperson.

Thanasis Theoharopoulos has been named director of the office of SYRIZA's new leader, Sokratis Famellos.

Giorgos Bagkis, a close associate of Famellos, will take on the role of director of the party's parliamentary group.

The “Kasselistas” are escalating their internal power play, pressuring the five alternates on the SYRIZA State List. So far, the first alternate, Popi Tsapanidou, along with the other four candidates who could claim Iliopoulos’ seat, have remained silent.

A private retirement home in Aghia Paraskevi, northern Athens, was shut down and sealed on Monday after Attica regional authorities, the Health Ministry and healthcare groups won a legal battle against the facility over the "hellish" conditions its 14 residents were kept in.

A drive by the Attica Regional Authority to recycle material used during the general election campaign last month appears to be bearing fruit as some 35 tons of paper was gathered over the last week.

Deputy Regional Governor Giorgos Karameros thanked parties and citizens for helping in the effort.