Main opposition party SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras concluded his two-day visit to the monastic community of Mount Athos, located in Halkidiki Peninsula, northern Greece.

Tsipras and his associates attended the morning mass and had a meal with the monks and then they boarded a coast guard vessel at the Monastery of Xenofontos harbour. The abbot of the monastery Alexios and the monks saw Tsipras and his associates off.

Tsipras was accompanied by his office director Nikos Pappas, SYRIZA MP and the party’s parliamentary group religious affairs sector head Yiannis Amanatidis and SYRIZA’s religious issues coordinator Makis Lykopoulos.