ATHENS – Sokratis Famellos announced on Thursday his candidacy for the leadership of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance.

In the video of his announcement, he emphasized that he takes responsibility to lead this collective effort and guarantees “first of all unity, by stopping introversion and toxicity.”

He added that he understands “those we have been disappointed by the party” and invited them to return in order to “rebuild the party. To rebuild a new SYRIZA. A real Progressive Alliance.”

“In the relaunch of SYRIZA, we invite all creative and active citizens. And especially young people,” he noted, among others.

Famellos stressed the need of a serious, modern, reliable and dynamic SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, a SYRIZA based on the values, ethics and struggles of the progressive faction, with reference to the legacy of the government of the Left, of Alexis Tsipras, who kept society and Greece upright… “