PASOK

With the exclusion of former party head Stefanos Kasselakis from its leadership election, it looks like SYRIZA is plunging into fresh turmoil.

Former PASOK Minister Vasso Papandreou has passed away at the age of 80. She had been facing serious health issues in recent years.

Her funeral will take place on Saturday, October 19, at 3:00 PM in Valimitika, Aigio.

Nikos Androulakis has scheduled a reshuffling of forces within the parliamentary group and the establishment of a Political Headquarters at Harilaou Trikoupi for early next week. This will involve not only some members of the younger generation but also his three competitors from the recent leadership election.

Nikos Androulakis may have been triumphantly re-elected to the helm of PASOK last Sunday, but the reasons that led to his leadership being challenged in the first place have not been resolved.

The “reborn” leader of PASOK begins today with consecutive meetings – The roles of Geroulanos and Diamantopoulou and the new power structure.

For a long time, New Democracy (ND) followed a strategy of not engaging directly with parties to its right, such as Kyriakos Velopoulos’ Greek Solution.

Nikos Androulakis was reelected as PASOK leader after defeating challenger Haris Doukas, the mayor of Athens, in a runoff on Sunday, securing nearly 60 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, SYRIZA's central committee, in a heated meeting filled with tension and verbal clashes, voted to bar recently ousted leader Stefanos Kasselakis from running in the party's upcoming leadership contest.

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.

Nikos Androulakis promises to proceed with immediate initiatives for change and the composition of forces within PASOK, attempting to capitalise on the momentum of his re-election to the leadership and address a wider audience, with the aim of upgrading the party’s role in the political scene.

Nikos Androulakis celebrated his reelection as PASOK leader on Sunday, delivering a message of unity and vowing to end the conservative New Democracy party's grip on power.

"Today, there are no winners or losers. The tough times for PASOK are behind us, and the best is yet to come," Androulakis declared after defeating his rival, Athens Mayor Haris Doukas, in the runoff.