SYRIZA: Central Committee rejects Polakis proposal for a January congress
Two signed reports record 52 votes against, 30 in favour and four blank ballots. The proposal concerned a congress and the election of a new leadership.
Updated 17 October 2026, 16:01 Athens time — What changed: discussion of a January congress ended with the rejection of Pavlos Polakis's proposal, according to two accessible, signed reports.
Giorgos Katsigiannis for Athens 9.84 and Michalis Chariatis for HuffPost Greece give the same result in the SYRIZA–Progressive Alliance Central Committee: 52 against, 30 in favour and four blank ballots.
Which proposal was put to a vote
The reports concern Polakis's proposal for a congress this coming January and election of a new leadership. Its rejection is not a decision calling a congress or a leadership election. Complete official minutes of the vote have not yet been located on the party website; the numerical result is attributed to the two news sources.
What came before
In the morning address officially published by SYRIZA–Progressive Alliance on 17 October, Central Committee secretary Nikos Pappas proposed that the committee decide, after the opening presentations, whether to hold a congress in January. AppiSToS's initial report at 13:04 covered that procedural proposal. The same URL is now updated with the subsequent outcome.
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