Syriza

The need for national consensus at this crucial period for Greece underlined New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis in his interview to Sunday newspaper Proto Thema and expressed his certainty that his party will win the elections. "Our ambition is to be the first party....

"The people's majority will offer us the opportunity to govern for the next four years by giving a clear mandate to SYRIZA," said party leader Alexis Tsipras in an interview to Sunday newspaper Real News. "The Greek people understand that...

"Against us is the old political system that pushed the country into a tragedy, which built the regime that led to the bailouts. We want to demolish this regime," Greece's former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated at a gathering of...

With the Greek snap elections set for September 20, a new opinion poll indicates changes in the structure of the next Greek Parliament. SYRIZA leads New Democracy by just 1%, as the two parties garner 22.2% and 21.2% of the intended Greek vote...

Several reports from the German press see Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA going to the September 20 snap elections weakened and his victory uncertain. "SYRIZA pragmatists are in a difficult situation" says financial newspaper Handelsblatt. "Alexis Tsipras has lost his fighter...

With the undecided reaching 25.5 percent, the latest opinion poll on intention to vote shows that the difference between SYRIZA and New Democracy is shrinking. According to a recent survey conducted by ProRata for Efimerida ton Syntakton daily published on...

Controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that "Alexis Tsipras keeps pushing the rock of austerity like Sisyphus" and the upcoming "election campaign will be sad and fruitless." Varoufakis spoke at Australia's ABC radio about Greece's upcoming elections, his stint...

Popular Unity chief Panagiotis Lafazanis and former House speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou criticized departing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the broadcast of his first election campaign interview. Lafazanis issued a written statement in which he accuses Tsipras of "committing to implement...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave his first interview following his resignation and spoke on his seven-month term at the country's helm. Tsipras resigned last Thursday following more than month of speculation as dissenters within his SYRIZA party kept growing over the adoption of...

Fifty-three members of SYRIZA's Central Committee, most of them affiliated with Panagiotis Lafazanis' Left Platform, resigned on Wednesday. In a letter, they stressed that they were unable to serve the new Memorandum signed by Greece, which they said delivered...