The left-wing party SYRIZA that ruled in Greece for four years and was elected main opposition party after the elections of 2023 is falling apart and there seems to be no end to the downfall.
From the 47 lawmakers elected in June 2023, already 31 have resigned form the Parliamentary group. Only two returned their seat to the party, while the majority of them choose to go “independent”.
In the last couple of days, the average resignation of its MPs is 3 per day and as of today, July 16, is has been left with 15 lawmakers.
The party, the second largest and main opposition after the 2023 elections, has now fallen to fourth place in the Greek Parliament after ruling new Democracy, socialist PASOK and Communist KKE.
Last week, Sokratis Famellos resigned as leader of the party and now founding members try to elect a new leader and take the party to the upcoming elections either in autumn 2026 or in spring 2027.
Will they manage to convince the remaining MPs to stay in the Parliamentary group?
Many of them wish to join the EL.AS., the party the former leader and ex Prime Minister of Greece (2015-2019), Alexis Tsipras, established a few weeks ago.
Apart of what current and former MPs have in mind, a big problem is that left-wing voters appear fed up with the conflicts within SYRIZA that it seems to have lost its way, its interest to the problems of the society and it is preoccupied only with its own political survival.
It should be recalled that party members are divided over the role of Tsipras as they accuse him of contributing to the disastrous party breakup when he resigned and proposed Stefanos Kasselakis as his successor who literally laid the tombstone to the grave of SYRIZA.
Public opinion polls show that it can hardly manage to pass the 3% threshold and enter the Parliament.
