Sokratis Famellos

The president of SYRIZA, Sokratis Famellos, expressed his support for a presidential candidate from the progressive space during the first meeting of the party's newly composed executive committee on Monday.

The narrative of stability was the central theme of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' speech on Sunday evening during the vote on Greece's 2025 annual budget, which projects a growth rate of 2.3% for the coming year.

The newly elected leader of SYRIZA offered an indication of the leftist party's tactics going forward on Saturday, stating that society "does not want consensus politics or a tango for two."

Newly elected SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos, in his inaugural speech to the party's central committee on Saturday, criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative government and challenged its claims of improving living conditions for Greek citizens.

New SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos is moving forward with a makeover of his left-wing party in an effort to transform it into what he described on Thursday as "the genuine opposition the country needs."

Whether the election of Sokratis Famellos as leader of SYRIZA is a new start for the left or just another episode in the party's implosion is difficult to determine at present. Certainly, the SYRIZA story over the last year has been a tragicomedy that has never failed to surprise. With just 47 MPs after a stunning electoral defeat in June of last year, SYRIZA comprises just 29 of them now.

SYRIZA has named Dionysis Kalamatianos as the new secretary of its shrinking parliamentary group, which is now down to 27 MPs seats in the 300-seat Parliament from 47 after the last election.

Newly elected SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos has reached out to former supporters who abandoned the left-wing party amid its recent crisis and leadership turmoil.

Journalist and SYRIZA MP Giorgos Karameros has been appointed the party's new press spokesperson.

Thanasis Theoharopoulos has been named director of the office of SYRIZA's new leader, Sokratis Famellos.

Giorgos Bagkis, a close associate of Famellos, will take on the role of director of the party's parliamentary group.

Sokratis Famellos, the recently elected new leader of the leftist SYRIZA party, which recently lost its status as the main opposition following a wave of defections, presented a party restart plan to former leader Alexis Tsipras, at the latter's office in central Athens on Thursday.