The Coalition of the Radical Left –Progressive Alliance,best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA,is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Greece. It was founded in 2004 as a political coalition of left-wing and radical left parties,and registered as a political party in 2012.
Legislative elections were held in Greece on Sunday,20 September 2015,following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' announced resignation on 20 August. At stake were all 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. This was a snap election,the sixth since 2007,since new elections were not due until February 2019.
Afroditi Theopeftatou is a Greek civil engineer and politician,member of the Council of the Hellenes from 2012 until 11 January 2019. Born in Athens,she is a graduate of the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras and worked as a civil engineer.
Vasiliki Koutrivanou is a Greek psychotherapist,politician and former member of SYRIZA. She studied Psychology and Conflict Resolution at the University of Portland and Law at the University of Athens. She speaks English and French.
In the run-up to the May 2023 Greek legislative election,various organizations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece during the term of the 18th Hellenic Parliament. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election,held on 7 July 2019,to the day the next election was held,on 21 May 2023.
Gkikas Magiorkinis (1978) is a Greek medical doctor specialized in Clinical Pathology and Associate Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the Department of Hygiene,Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens,Greece.
Thanassis Theocharopoulos is an agricultural economist,Greek politician and last chairman of the Democratic Left (DIMAR). In 2019 he served as Tourism Minister for Syriza.
Eftychia "Effie" Achtsioglou,is a Greek politician who served as Minister for Labour,Social Insurance and Social Solidarity from 2016 to 2019. She is a member of the Hellenic Parliament since July 2019 and a leading figure of the New Left since December 2023. She was a member of SYRIZA and an MP for the party until she left in November 2023.
Volt Greece is a social liberal political party in Greece and the Greek branch of Volt Europa.
A leadership election was held in September 2023 within Syriza after the resignation of leader Alexis Tsipras following the June 2023 legislative election. It was won by Stefanos Kasselakis after two rounds of voting.
Dimitris Vitsas is a Greek politician. He was a member of the Syriza party,Minister of Immigration Policy and Deputy Minister of National Defence.
The New Left is a centre-left to left-wing democratic socialist political party in the Hellenic Parliament. It was founded on 4 December 2023 by eleven independent MPs who left the Syriza party. The president of the parliamentary group is Alexis Haritsis. The New Left officially became a party on 3 March 2024 after its founding conference.
The 2008 Leadership election of Synaspismos took place on 10 February 2008,during its 5th Congress. The two candidates were:Alexis Tsipras and Fotis Kouvelis. Tsipras won with 840 votes,while Kouvelis earned 342 votes,while 14 members voted blank or invalid.
The 2021 Movement for Change leadership election took place on 5 December 2021,in which six candidates took part. Since none of the candidates received 50% of the vote,a runoff election took place in 12 December,between Nikos Androulakis and George Papandreou.
Alexis Haritsis is a Greek politician,Member of the Hellenic Parliament since 2019 and President of New Left since 2023.
Onassis Stegi,formerly known as the Onassis Cultural Center,is a cultural venue in Athens,Greece,owned by the Onassis Foundation. Afroditi Panagiotakou serves as Director of Culture of the Onassis Foundation and Stegi respectively.
Kosmos is a green political party in Greece,founded in 2024 by MEP Petros S. Kokkalis,Maria Vassilakou and Lefteris Papagiannakis.
The 2024 PASOK –Movement for Change leadership election took place on the 6th of October 2024,with a second round on the 13th of the same month,in order to elect the president of PASOK –Movement for Change.
Internal party elections took place within SYRIZA-PS on 15 May 2022,in which the president and the members of the Central Committee were directly elected by the members of the party.
A leadership election was held on 24 November 2024. The winner was Sokratis Famellos,an MP of Syriza and former leader of the parliamentary group. In second place,with a small gap to the winner,was the MP from Chania,Pavlos Polakis,who said that he did not want a second round. These elections - the most tumultuous in Syriza's history - were marked by the decision of the party's supreme bodies to reject the possibility of former Syriza president Stefanos Kasselakis running,a decision that caused fierce disputes among the party's executives and grassroots members.
About 70,000 voters who were already registered members of the party voted,a figure that SYRIZA officials described as a success under the circumstances.
