Olga Gerovassili

A major disruption within the SYRIZA Progressive Alliance was triggered by the news of Eyaggelos Apostolakis’ decision to leave the party. The admiral’s move took both the party’s new chairman, Socrates Famellos, and the natural leader of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, by surprise, as he announced his intentions late yesterday afternoon.

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The new leader of SYRIZA

Sokratis Famelos, according to the biography on his website, was born in 1966 in Athens, but grew up and has lived in Thessaloniki since 1970.

The internal crisis within the SYRIZA Progressive Alliance seems to have reached a new stage in the heart of Pagrati.

Alternative plans aimed at their personal political survival in the post Conference era are increasingly on the minds of more and more members of the SYRIZA Progressive Alliance, as the hourglass of Koumoundourou begins counting down from today for the party’s Extraordinary Congress.

Dealing with the issue of price inflation and the prospects of the Greek economy are the focus of the “Alexis Tsipras Institute” event currently taking place at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus.

On Monday morning, Stefanos Kasselakis made his first extended statement, in which he revealed some of his intentions for the coming period.

In the video he posted on Facebook, he calls the decision to exclude him from the Central Committee to run for president of SYRIZA unprecedented and shocking.

Yesterday, the Central Committee of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance delivered a second blow to former party leader Stefanos Kasselakis. Following his impeachment, the committee voted by roll call—140 in favor and 12 against—to officially exclude him from the race for the party’s new leadership.

At the preceding Political Secretariat meeting, the “87” cadres, who have a majority in the body, decided that the Central Committee meeting should take place as normal. Their speeches made it clear that they were preparing a vote to block Kasselakis’ candidacy for the party leadership.

Members of the New Democracy parliamentary group were briefed on Thursday afternoon by Health Minister Adonis Georgiades on issues within his remit.

The closed session is part of the regular briefings that the members of the government have started to the “blue” MPs to better coordinate the legislative work.

In a version of pop aesthetics, with a black and white poster and under the central slogan “our SYRIZA,” Stefanos Kasselakis, made his reappearance in the public sphere yesterday, bringing closer the announcement of his candidacy for the presidency of SYRIZA PS. In just two words and saying “I am here”, Mr.