Costas Zachariadis

Kasselakis’s move has multiple interpretations regarding the true meaning of today’s statement, in which he publicly addressed SYRIZA’s internal matters for the first time after being ousted from the presidency.

SYRIZA MP and member of the political secretariat, the top executive of the leftist opposition, Costas Zachariadis, has criticized the stance of party chief Stefanos Kasselakis, as expressed on the opening day of the party's congress, as divisive, while pointing to Olga Gerovasili as a potential challenger to his leadership.

After the unlikely choice of an ex-Goldman Sachs banker to lead SYRIZA, the party is considering another revamp of its image, officially moving from the radical-left to the center-left.

SYRIZA has endorsed Costas Zachariadis as its candidate for Athens mayor in the upcoming local government elections on October 8, the party's Political Secretariat said on Thursday.

The decision was between Zachariadis and Nikos Filis, the former minister of education, after the secretariat decided not to back former basketball player Nikos Pappas.

SYRIZA MP, Costas Zachariadis, expressed his confidence that whenever elections take place, the SYRIZA party will be the first party and that Alexis Tsipras will form a progressive government from the first Sunday, speaking at the stand of the OT at the Thessaloniki International Fair.

Greece will exit its bailout program on Monday after eight years of highly unpopular memorandums, but the government's plans to mark the occasion with fanfare have been dashed by the fallout from the deadly Attica fires on July 23 which left almost 100 dead. 

Seeking to refute speculation of an imminent rupture of the coalition due to disagreements regarding Greece's dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the latter's name, the leader of its junior partner, Panos Kammenos, said on Monday that his party will stay the course but insisted he will never acquiesce to a solution that will allow the tiny Balkan nation to use th