SYRIZA president Alexis Tsipras is campaigning in Crete with the catchphrase “vote for Greece or for Merkel”. In an island full of disenfranchised socialist voters who used to give PASOK party huge majorities in the 1980s and 1990s, Tsipras hopes that he can capture some of these votes.

The big divide in every major call for the Radical Left Coalition party is over currency. While the center-left wing and party president Tsipras believe Greece should retain the Euro, the party's “Left platform”, representing a little less than 40% of the members, want a return to a national currency.

Main opposition SYRIZA leader and candidate for the European Commission presidency Alexis Tsipras is in Brussels today and Paris on Friday and Saturday.