Former SYRIZA MP Katerina Notopoulou, who resigned her parliamentary seat earlier Wednesday, has expressed support for former prime minister Alexis Tsipras’s newly launched Greek Left Alliance (ELAS).
Speaking to the media on Wednesday night, Notopoulou, who represented the Thessaloniki A constituency as a SYRIZA MP from 2012 to 2023, said she supports Tsipras’s political initiative, arguing that “under certain conditions it could be a way out of the stagnant situation in the progressive world.”
Notopoulou described her decision to leave SYRIZA as “a difficult decision, deeply personal, but above all political,” adding that remaining in the party “no longer serves either my political beliefs or the country’s need for a real progressive way forward.”
Her departure follows that of Giorgos Karameros last week, who also gave up his parliamentary seat and openly expressed support for Tsipras’s new political venture.
Tsipras, who led SYRIZA until 2023, and was prime minister with the party from 2015 to 2019, has said that sitting MPs must resign their seats before joining his new party.
