Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras

Sokratis Famellos, the new president of SYRIZA, held a meeting with former Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.

The meeting between the two men took place on Thursday afternoon at Tsipras’ office in central Athens.

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Ilias Iliou, the parliamentary group representative for the United Democratic Left (EDA) party between 1958-1967 and a politician who was widely respected, even by his rivals, once quipped about the communists' unique ability to turn a mundane procedure like a meeting into a process that needs to be suffered through.

At the Delphi Forum, the former president of SYRIZA spoke, saying that he remains politically active – Mitsotakis is running on his own and risks coming in second

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Yannis Dragasakis, who served as deputy prime minister in Alexis Tsipras' government, has resigned from the central committee of SYRIZA. 

How is Alexis Tsipras, the former prime minister and SYRIZA leader, truly faring? What is he currently engaged in? What does he think about the developments within SYRIZA? Does he concur with the unfolding events and their direction? Is everything unfolding as he planned it?

It's been less than three months since ruling New Democracy confirmed its electoral triumph in May in a second national election, on June 25, that saw it win well over double the share of the vote that second-placed SYRIZA received - 40.56% to 17.83%.

The main opposition left-wing SYRIZA party is on a quest for a new leader who will be able to beat Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, its officials say.

The absence of a clear policy cost SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras dearly in the last election. In the past, vagueness had been one of the party's strengths.

In 2015, Tsipras led his party to three successive victories (two elections and a referendum), as each voter read what they wanted into his general promise to "abolish the memorandum."

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the decision of Alexis Tsipras to resign from the leadership of SYRIZA was "expected" after his party's poor showing in several election battles.