Small leftist party supports Prespes deal, leader booted from socialist alliance

Democratic Left (DIMAR), a small leftist party created as a result of a breakaway from Syriza back in 2010, has voted to approve the Prespes deal.

As a result, DIMAR leader Thanassis Theocharopoulos, the party's only deputy in the 300-member Parliament has been excluded from Change Movement (KINAL), a socialist party created from the fusion of the formerly dominant PASOK party with smaller center-left groupings.

"Mr. Theocharopoulos' position serves Mr. Tsipras and his designs and cannot be condoned," KINAL said in a press statement.

KINAL also announced a special party congress for the end of March to complete the fusion process into a single party.

DIMAR's central committee approved the Prespes deal 27-22 with 2 blank ballots Sunday evening.

Former Prime Minister George Papandreou, a KINAL member, has also come out for the deal. Papandreou is not a...