Syriza leadership election

Stefanos Kasselakis, leader of the Movement for Democracy, has invited members of his newly-founded party to choose its official logo.

In a social media post on Tuesday, Kasselakis announced that a shortlist of logo designs is available for voting on the party's website. The voting period will be open from Wednesday until December 20.

The debate on the budget in the House of Representatives turned out to be a foretaste of the new political period ushered in by the advent of 2025, with the Syriza Progressive Alliance emerging unscathed from the vote, but from the benches of what is now the third parliamentary power in the plenary chamber.

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."

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. 

Yiannis Sarakiotis became the latest lawmaker to defect from embattled SYRIZA, leaving the leftist opposition with 28 seats in Parliament from 47 after the June 2023 election, which had positioned it as the country's second biggest party behind ruling New Democracy. It is now in third place, lagging center-left PASOK.

The fact that SYRIZA managed to bring an end to its adventures with Stefanos Kasselakis - albeit it in a not very democratic way, admittedly - and to democratically elect a decent, if not brilliant, new leader in Sokratis Famellos is good news for Greece's earthquake-prone political system.

The election on Sunday of Sokratis Famellos as SYRIZA's new leader marks a pivotal moment for Greece's left-wing party as it seeks to rebuild after significant electoral losses. 

The left-wing SYRIZA party, whose MP Sokratis Famellos was elected as it new leader Sunday, announced the election's official final results Monday, giving Famellos 49.36% of the vote.