Progressive Alliance

The new leader of SYRIZA

Sokratis Famelos, according to the biography on his website, was born in 1966 in Athens, but grew up and has lived in Thessaloniki since 1970.

With conflicting results to the end and in an episodic manner, the election of Syriza’s Syriza Progressive Alliance’s first, powerful internal party crash test, as the majority and “Casselistas” faced off in the most decisive ballot box since that of Alexis Tsipras’s succession in September 2023.

The official start of the internal elections in Syriza Progressive Alliance was marked by yesterday’s decision of the Political Secretariat, as Koumoundourou’s governing body declared candidates for the presidency of their party: Socrates Famello, Nikolas Farantouri, Pavlos Polakis and Apostolos Gletso.

Stefanos Kasselakis opens a new front for the upcoming SYRIZA congress by raising four questions regarding both the venue and the election process.

A statement issued by Stefanos Kasselakis’ office on Friday morning claimed that “the congress is planned to be held in a nightclub that has been closed for more than four years.”

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.

Theocharopoulos: After the Motion of No Confidence Passed, the Situation Worsened Due to the Ousted President

Thanasis Theocharopoulos delivered harsh criticism of Stefanos Kasselakis during his speech at the Central Committee, stating that after the motion of no confidence was passed, “the situation has worsened because of the ousted president.”

As main opposition SYRIZA heads to its congress this weekend, the most difficult one of recent years, there has been no letup in the tension between its leadership and the internal opposition.

The structural changes proposed by SYRIZA’s President, Stefanos Kasselakis, have triggered significant shifts within the party.

Trench warfare lasted until the early hours of today in SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, as the six-hour meeting of the Parliamentary Group was not enough to defuse internal tensions but instead deepened the rift between the party leader,

SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance President Alexis Tsipras accused New Democracy leader and prime minister at the time Kyriakos Mitsotakis of lying and saying that he informed him before the election about alleged machinations of the Turkish consulate in the region of Rhodope in support of Muslim SYRIZA candidates.