Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: New Democracy, SYRIZA
Image: https://www.syriza.gr/
Image: https://www.syriza.gr/

Stefanos Kasselakis completed on Sunday night his astounding ascendancy to SYRIZA’s leadership less than a month after announcing his candidacy and only a few months before being named on the party’s state list of parliamentary candidates, which marked his first exposure to Greek politics and voters.

Kasselakis gained around 57 pct of almost 134,000 votes cast, while his only rival in Sunday’s run-off ballot, former labour minister Efi Achtsioglou won around 43 pct. The victory for the neophyte 35-year-old entrepreneur, who has spent all his adult l...

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