Movement for Democracy

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.

Almost as time was running out, yesterday afternoon, the Syriza Progressive Alliance‘s stance on defence spending crystallized, with the budget debate culminating this evening.

Former SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis, founder of the newly formed Movement for Democracy, has criticized the government's 2025 budget as excessively austere.

"This week the Greek parliament will pass its annual budget, another budget the government will miss at the expense of the country's social fabric," he wrote on platform X, in an English-language text.

If the SYRIZA lawmakers who became independent and are close to the party's former leader Stefanos Kasselakis manage to reach 10, the parliamentary group they will form will be the 10th in the current house.

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."