The so-called “Ahtsioglou” group announced its departure from SYRIZA on Thursday morning with a text sent to the party’s secretaries, while the MPs Alexis Haritsis and Nasos Iliopoulos arrived at the office of the House Speaker, Konstantinos Tassoulas, shortly before 10 am for to announce that nine SYRIZA MPs of the “6+6” group from now on they will be independent.

Former minister of economics with Tsipras’ government Euclid Tsakalotos and Peti Perka are expected to be added to these 9 MPs, so that they can all together form an official independent parliamentary group.

According to information, the two MPs who recently became independent from another left wing party, the Freedom Movement (Areti Papaioannou and Michalis Hourdakis), are close to joining the same group.

See Also:

Dutch Elections: Anti-mass migration right-wing Geert Wilders wins most seats

As it was clarified, the announcement of the new parliamentary group will not take place today but in the following days, with Alexis Haritsis and Nasos Iliopoulos speaking, after leaving the office of the House Speaker, about “a ‘very difficult but inevitable decision'”.