The left-wing SYRIZA party, whose MP Sokratis Famellos was elected as it new leader Sunday, announced the election’s official final results Monday, giving Famellos 49.36% of the vote.  

Second-placed Pavlos Polakis, an MP who conceded Sunday night to avoid a run-off, captured 43.57% of the votes, followed by MEP Nikolas Farantouris with 5.08% and Apostolos Gletsos, a regional councilor and actor, with 1.99%.

A total of 70,152 votes were cast – with 652 declared invalid – fewer than half the number in the previous election, in September 2023, when Stefanos Kasselakis, a political neophyte, triumphed.

Recent opinion polls show party support dropping to single digits, while defections among lawmakers mean SYRIZA is no longer the main opposition group in parliament, having been displaced by the socialist PASOK.

SYRIZA was elected into power in 2015, in alliance with a populist conservative party, after capturing 35% of the vote.

[Kathimerini, AP]

Source: Ekathimerini.com