Nikos Pappas
SYRIZA announces launch of campaign for new party leader, to be elected Sep 10
Main opposition party SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance on Monday officially announced the launch of the campaign for the election of a new party leader, scheduled to be held on September 10.
Two main pre-electoral mottos are "On September 10, I participate" and "Tomorrow begins with us", it was noted in the party announcement.
Judge who probed Golden Dawn named new Supreme Court chief
One of the chief investigative magistrates in the trial against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn organization, Ioanna Klapa, has been appointed as the new president of Greece's Supreme Court.
Klapa became a judge in 1984 and joined the country's highest criminal court in August 2020 after distinguishing herself in the widely publicized trial.
Achtsioglou: ‘Let party supporters vote’
Efi Achtsioglou, the former social security minister and considered the front-runner in the race to succeed Alexis Tsipras as SYRIZA leader, has proposed that not only party members but also party supporters should be allowed to participate in the September 10 ballot.
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Realignment taking place within SYRIZA
The contest for a new leader of the left-wing SYRIZA party has already produced realignments among the party's several factions and they are probably not over yet.
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Nikos Pappas announces candidacy for SYRIZA leadership
Nikos Pappas, who served as the minister of digital policy, telecommunications, and media from November 2016 to July 2019, on Saturday announced his candidacy for the leadership of the leftist SYRIZA party.
Pivotal meeting for SYRIZA leadership
The leadership developments in the SYRIZA party are coming to a head on Saturday, when the meeting of the Central Committee will take place.
The party is beset by division and it is still reeling in the wake of two devastating defeats in a row - Mitsotakis' New Democracy party defeated SYRIZA 40.56% to 17.83% on June 25, the party.
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Achtsioglou to announce SYRIZA leadership bid
The first contender for the SYRIZA leadership election is expected to throw her hat into the ring on Wednesday, sources have said.
Associates said that Efi Achtsioglou, who served as minister for Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity from 2016 to 2019, would declare her candidacy at noon at the Athens Conservatoire.
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Special Court: SYRIZA planned to control media
There was a plan by the SYRIZA-led government to acquire and control media, according to the multi-page reasoning of the Special Court, published on Monday, that led to the conviction of ex-minister Nikos Pappas to two years in prison over his handling of a 2016 TV license tender.
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Failed politicians on the party ticket
The truth is that SYRIZA does not have the moral high ground to call for the removal of Kostas A. Karamanlis (III), who resigned as transport minister in the conservative administration following the deadly train collision, from the New Democracy party ticket. Not because the main leftist opposition does not have a say on the issue.
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Christos Pappas: The parliamentary works and days of the man who was on the lam until yesterday
By Nikos Hasapopoulos
Christos Pappas of the now defunct far-right Golden Dawn party was no run of the mill cadre of former party leader Nikos Michaloliakos.
He was the self-styled "theoretician" of the group. Even "his own" people referred to him as [top Nazi Hermann] Goering and his parliamentary presence was marked by his outrageous audacity.