Stefanos Kasselakis is the new President of SYRIZA

He beat Achtsioglou winning 56.69% of the vote

Stefanos Kasselakis recorded a comfortable victory against his colleague in SYRIZA Effie Achtsioglou for the party’s presidency with 56.69% of the vote counted (75%) against 43.4%.

The final number of members who cast a ballot based on the data was between 133,700, which is a little lower than last Sunday’s turnout when 148,821 members of SYRIZA voted.

Efi Achtsioglou called Kasselakis and congratulated him on his victory shortly before the official announcement of the results.