SYRIZA on course for implosion

Main opposition SYRIZA has been plunged into turmoil again, after the proposal by its leader Stefanos Kasselakis to hold a referendum about the expulsion of prominent dissenters from the party appears to have backfired as senior figures that had so far backed him expressed their disagreement.

In a post on social media just a day the party's central committee convenes, Kasselakis called on the main opposition party to hold an internal referendum on the expulsion of "four party members who brutally insulted all of us."

In October, Kasselakis had announced he was expelling Nikos Filis, Panos Skourletis, Dimitris Vitsas and Stefanos Tzoumakas from the party. On Friday, Skourletis and Nikos Voutsis, a former parliamentary speaker, announced their resignations on the grounds that the new leader was abandoning left-wing principles.

Moreover, top officials who had...