A migrant trade unionist, Konstantina Kuneva, who was badly injured in an acid attack in 2008, constitutional lawyers, a Roma activist, Saticha Suleiman, and journalists are among the 14 non-party candiditates who will run on a Syriza ticket in next month’s elections to the European Parliament.
Among the 20 party officials running are MPs Dimitris Papadimoulis, Sofia Sakorafa and Yiannis Milios.
Journalists running on Syriza’s ticket include Stelios Kouloglou, formerly of ERT, and Kathimerini’s Nikos Xydakis. Two consitutional lawyers – Yiorgos Katrougalos and Kostas Chrysogonos, will also contest the elections for the party, as will Savvas Robolis, a labour expert at the General Confederation of Greek Workers (Gsee).
The names were announced after a central committee vote which took place last weekend. The central committee meeting was dominated by a debate on whether the party should remain in the eurozone or return to a national currently. A motion, submitted by the party’s Left Platform calling for a return to the drachma was rejected.
There was also debate over the some of the names put forward as non-party election candidates, including economists Yanis Varoufakis and Costas Lapavitsas, former Pasok and
now independent Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Kriton Arsenis and former Pasok MEP Myrsini Zorba.
Source: enetenglish