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SYRIZA Conference Shows Party Members Want More Leftist Policies

The results of the vote for electing the new Central Committee in the second SYRIZA Conference on Sunday night show that the leftist candidates won over the more conservative ones. The vote makes it apparent that most delegates continue to...

Attica Deputy Governor Throws Tsipras Poster in Recycle Bin

Attica Deputy Governor Giorgos Karameros, member of the Ecologist Greens party, was photographed throwing the Alexis Tsipras poster from the SYRIZA Conference in a recycle bin. This was Karameros' humorous response to criticism by New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis. The...

Tsipras Re-elected SYRIZA President with 93.54% of Vote

The second SYRIZA conference re-elected Alexis Tsipras as party president with 93.54% of the total vote. Out of the total 2,926 delegates, 2,758 voted with 176 of them casting a blank ballot and 34 ballots were not valid. No other...

SYRIZA Conference Continues with the "53" Asking for More Leftist Approach to Policies

The fraction of the "53" within SYRIZA claim that they will fight to pass amendments to political decisions that will have a more leftist approach. The second SYRIZA Conference entered the third day with cabinet members and MPs voicing their...

SYRIZA Conference Was Staged Like a Celebration, But With Nothing to Celebrate

The second SYRIZA conference, the first with the leftist party in power, was staged like an intended celebration, but unfortunately for the hosts, there was nothing to celebrate. In his opening speech, Alexis Tsipras seemed like a man who has...

Greek PM Tsipras Tells People What They Want to Hear… Again!

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras opened the four-day conference of his party on Thursday night, stating that it was the first party conference for SYRIZA with the party in power. He said that the left had a "historic duty" to...

SYRIZA Conference Starts Amid Conflicts, Doubt, Determination to Stay in Power

The second SYRIZA conference starts today (Thursday) with a speech by party leader, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The conference finds the leftist party in government and it will be very different than the first conference in 2013 when they...