Stefanos Kasselakis

MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who recently quit SYRIZA over developments within the main opposition, rejected calls on Monday from the new party leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, to give up his seat in the European Parliament.

Former SYRIZA heavyweight Dimitris Vitsas has said that a new political entity could be formed in anticipation of the upcoming European elections.

Vitsas, a former party secretary, recently parted ways with the main opposition, which is grappling with internal discord following the election of new leader Stefanos Kasselakis.

New realities after the stormy meeting of the Central Committee – Kasselakis: “Today the unity of SYRIZA begins”

"Umbrella," the left-wing faction of the main opposition SYRIZA party, led by former Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, has officially announced it has quit the party.

Stefanos Tzoumakas, a party member who was set under suspension by SYRIZA president Stefanos Kasselakis, announced his departure from the party on Sunday.

Tzoumakas was the first of the four members of the party to leave the party after Kasselakis's initiative to expel four prominent party cadres who had been highly critical of him since his election. 

SYRIZA's internal tensions continued on Sunday, the second day of the party's Central Committee meeting. Sunday's SYRIZA's Central Committee meeting will conclude in the evening with a vote on the party's draft Political Resolution.

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SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has called on the members of the party's central committee to expel four prominent party cadres who have been highly critical of him since his election during a crucial meeting on Saturday. 

Main opposition SYRIZA has been plunged into turmoil again, after the proposal by its leader Stefanos Kasselakis to hold a referendum about the expulsion of prominent dissenters from the party appears to have backfired as senior figures that had so far backed him expressed their disagreement.

SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has called on the main opposition party to hold an internal referendum on the expulsion of "four party members who brutally insulted all of us."