Greece's leftist Syriza party elects new leader

Syriza, the left-wing party in Greece, elected Sokratis Famellos as its new leader after a year of internal turmoil and declining popularity, as he narrowly missed the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff. The party’s electoral appeal has been diminishing, dropping from over 35 percent in 2015 to just 14 percent in the European elections last June, with recent polls showing single-digit support. Famellos’s victory comes after the previous leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, was ousted in 2024 and formed his own party, Movement for Democracy, marking a significant shift in Greek politics.

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