Tsipras elected new leader of Synaspismos

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Tsipras elected new SYN leader with 70.41 pct

Alexis Tsipras, the 34-year-old Political Secretariat member responsible for education and youth affairs, was on Sunday elected the new leader of the Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (SYN) party, with an overwhelming majority of 70.41 percent, at the close of the party's 5th Congress.

The Coalition of the Left, Movements and Progress (SYN) party winds up its 5th Congress on Sunday with the election of a new party leader to replace outgoing leader Alekos Alavanos, and a new, enlarged Central Committee comprising 125 members against the current 111 members.

The second of the two candidates for the party leadership was 60-year-old veteran Left politician and MP Fotis Kouvelis.

Tsipras was elected with 70.41 percent.

Out of a total of 1,196 votes, Tsipras received 841, against 342 votes for Kouvelis, while 11 blank ballots were cast and 3 were invalid.

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