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Few figures in modern Greek history have divided opinion as sharply as former Prime minister Alexis Tsipras. To some, he is the firebrand populist who took the country to the edge of financial abyss. To others he was the man who dared to confront Europe’s most powerful institutions at the height of the debt crisis but at the end betrayed his own promises when he signed the bailout agreement he once campaigned against. On Monday, Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation as a member of parliament for SYRIZA, a move widely interpreted as a prelude to launching a new political entity outside the party he once led.

The Political Secretariat of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance condemned the mass resignations from the party on Thursday.

After the initial numbness in SYRIZA brought on by the sudden move of Alexis Tsipras to resign from the leadership of the party while declaring at the same time that he will not be a candidate in the procedures that will follow for the election of a new president, all eyes are on the next day in Koumoundourou.