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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-10
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[01] SYN 5th Congress to elect new leader on Sunday
[01] SYN 5th Congress to elect new leader on Sunday
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 two candidates for the party leadership are 60-year-old veteran
Left politician and MP Fotis Kouvelis, and 34-year-old Political
Secretariat member responsible for education and youth affairs Alexis
Tsipras, a former secretary of the party's youth organisation.
Alavanos addressed the Congress on Sunday.
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of outgoing Synaspismos leader Alekos
Alavanos
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