Progressive Alliance

With a difference of 58 days—on October 13 and December 1—PASOK and SYRIZA will elect their leadership.

The six PASOK leadership candidates presented their positions, political priorities, and their programmatic plan for the “next day” in the Melina Mercouri Hall at the Peace and Friendship Stadium.

The Ethics, Statutes, and Certification Committee (EDEKAP) of PASOK-Movement for Change completed the required review of signatures submitted for the nomination of presidential candidates on Wednesday, 11/09/2024.

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has urged the government to implement anti-flooding infrastructure following damage from Storm Atena.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Doukas, also a PASOK leadership candidate, noted that Athens has cleared 14,700 storm drains in 2024.

SYRIZA’s top officials are set to face the new reality following Stefanos Kasselakis’s removal from the leadership of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, as the Political Secretariat meets today at 4 p.m. Tensions remain high within the party.

The deadline for submitting the required signatures by PASOK leadership candidates is tonight at 9 PM. The Ethics Committee will review the lists and determine which candidates meet the necessary criteria.

Nominations for the leadership of PASOK will close on Monday, a month ahead of the October 6 election.

The seven contenders for the leadership must submit at least 5,000 signatures from party members or the signatures of 15% of central committee members.

Given the different protagonists and characteristics of the two given times, it would seem somewhat excessive to draw similarities between PASOK's heyday in 1981, when it gained such widespread popularity with its pledges for change, and the realistic possibility of the socialist party reclaiming its position in second place as the main contender for power against New Democracy today because of

With ruling New Democracy emitting a sense of fatigue and registering a significant drop in the polls - the result of wrong political choices but also of the arrogant behavior of some of its officials - and SYRIZA experiencing never-ending self-destructive infighting and sinking into an existential rut, PASOK is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a crucial time for its and the country's future

Opposition party PASOK will hold two debates as part of its leadership contest.

Party spokesman Thanasis Glavinas said the debates will take place "both before the first round and before the second round of the internal party elections."