To Potami's leader Stavros Theodorakis presided over the party's founding congress this weekend, and drew in unprecedented popularity.

"Elia" Party came fourth. Venizelos announced he will hold a founding congress in October.

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) can provide a response to "the real, the substantive dilemma that is: submission or emancipation of our people from the policy of the European Union, of the monopolies," Secretary General Dimitris Koutsoumbas said on Thursday at Athens' Pedion tou Areos park during the party's main rally on the municipal and regional elections.