2024 Syriza leadership election

2024 SYRIZA leadership election
← 2023 24 November 2024
Turnout70,152
 
Pavlos Polakis 2014.jpg
Candidate Sokratis Famellos Pavlos Polakis Nikolas Farantouris
First round 34,305 (49.4%) 30,281 (43.6%) 3,531 (5.1%)
Second round Unopposed Withdrew Eliminated
President of
SYRIZA before election

Vacant

 Elected President of
SYRIZA

Sokratis Famellos

A leadership election was held on 24 November 2024. The winner was Sokratis Famellos, an MP of Syriza and former leader of the parliamentary group. In second place, with a small gap to the winner, was the MP from Chania, Pavlos Polakis, who said that he did not want a second round.[1] These elections - the most tumultuous in Syriza's history - were marked by the decision of the party's supreme bodies to reject the possibility of former Syriza president Stefanos Kasselakis running, a decision that caused fierce disputes among the party's executives and grassroots members.[2][3]
About 70,000 voters who were already registered members of the party voted (in the immediately preceding elections 147,000 people who could register on the same day had voted), a figure that SYRIZA officials described as a success under the circumstances. [4]

  1. ^ Paul Polakis: "No need for a second round" - "I will be present the next day" (in Greek)
  2. ^ SYRIZA: Conflict of extreme polarization without political disputes (in Greek)
  3. ^ The conflict in SYRIZA reaches extremes with an exchange of heavy accusations - Polakis to the 87 for Kasselakis: "You have made him a wounded prince" (in Greek)
  4. ^ SYRIZA elections/ Last year 147.000, this year 70.000 - Can a comparison be made - What do the numbers show? (in Greek)