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PASOK lawmakers Milena Apostolaki and Michalis Katrinis on Monday added their names to the other three politicians who announced they would run for party leader in the election scheduled for October 6 this year. 

A week of political tensions lies ahead with the impact of the European elections continuing to resonate across the three big political parties that failed to reach their goals.

North Macedonia's Socialist SDSM party elected Venko Filipce as its new leader on Sunday.

Some 9,052 party members voted for Filipce, who will become the new opposition leader. He currently sits as an MP.

The current mayor of Athens and an MP and former Culture Minister announced Sunday they will challenge current PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis in an October contest.

Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas, 44, and MP Pavlos Geroulanos, 58, announced their candidacies for the socialist party's leadership at a Central Political Committee meeting Sunday.

PASOK president Nikos Androulakis proposed for the party to hold a leadership election on October 6 and 13 during his speech at the PASOK Central Committee meeting on Sunday.

The Central Committee of PASOK will meet at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday amid internal party turmoil to decide the date of leadership elections.

A new chapter opened today for PASOK, with most of its members attending the crucial Central Committee meeting, convinced that their proposal for an immediate leadership election this fall will finally be accepted by Nikos Androulakis.

With internal turmoil threatening to tear it apart in the wake of June's European Parliament elections, socialist PASOK is heading to leadership elections early in the fall, with relevant procedures expected to be launched at Sunday's crucial meeting of the party's central committee.

Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas hinted that he plans to run for the leadership of the Socialist PASOK party in a social media post on Thursday. 

In a Facebook post Doukas stated that PASOK can defeat the ruling New Democracy party, just as he did in the mayoral election in Athens, while repeating the phrase "let's go."

Grigoris Dimitriadis, former general secretary and nephew of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in charge of Greece's secret service testified for two hours before a Supreme Court prosecutor on Tuesday over an eavesdropping scandal targeting politicians, businessmen and media figures.