Center-left KINAL in upheaval after departures

Center-left Movement for Change (KINAL), which is polling in third place ahead of national elections in July, was in a state of upheaval on Sunday after two candidates and a party cadre quit in protest at the withdrawal of socialist heavyweight Evangelos Venizelos. 

Dimitris Lintzeris and Manos Epitropakis withdrew from the race after KINAL leader Fofi Gennimata effectively downgraded Venizelos' role, prompting his departure. 

Venizelos - a former leader of the socialist PASOK party that leads the KINAL coalition, as well as an ex-foreign and finance minister - quit Movement for Change after Gennimata informed him that she was putting former Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis at the top of the list of candidates for the nationwide party list (epikrateias) in the national elections. 

Venizelos, in a statement, accused Gennimata of turning KINAL into an "appendage" of...