Syriza leadership election

The exclusion of former party head Stefanos Kasselakis from the leadership election has plunged main opposition SYRIZA into fresh turmoil.

The majority insists there are now two camps: the party and Kasselakis.

Stefanos Kasselakis has condemned as "Stalinist" a statement by SYRIZA, the left-wing party he once led, which announced on Monday that the decision to exclude him from the upcoming leadership elections is "immediately enforceable and irrevocable."

The left-wing SYRIZA opposition has responded to an attack from Stefanos Kasselakis, confirming that the recently deposed leader has been barred from running in the upcoming leadership elections.

On Monday morning, Stefanos Kasselakis made his first extended statement, in which he revealed some of his intentions for the coming period.

In the video he posted on Facebook, he calls the decision to exclude him from the Central Committee to run for president of SYRIZA unprecedented and shocking.

Ousted SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis took to social media on Monday to criticize the left-wing party's central committee after it voted over the weekend to bar him from running as a candidate in the upcoming leadership election.

Time and support are running out for former president Stefanos Kasselakis, whose political maneuvering options are narrowing.

Yesterday, the Central Committee of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance delivered a second blow to former party leader Stefanos Kasselakis. Following his impeachment, the committee voted by roll call—140 in favor and 12 against—to officially exclude him from the race for the party’s new leadership.

Stefanos Kasselakis cannot be a candidate for his own succession, SYRIZA's central committee has decided.

Out of 152 central committee members, 138 voted not to accept Kasselakis' candidacy Saturday evening.

Day of decisions for the unity and perspective of Syriza Progressive Alliance today is proving to be the day, as it meets at 12:30 noon the party’s Central Committee and while the sides of the deposed President, Stefanos Kasselakis and the new majority of Koumoundourou are now in open rupture, with the symbiosis between them seeming unviable.

At the preceding Political Secretariat meeting, the “87” cadres, who have a majority in the body, decided that the Central Committee meeting should take place as normal. Their speeches made it clear that they were preparing a vote to block Kasselakis’ candidacy for the party leadership.