Well-known sports columnist and football pundit Antonis Panoutsos and writer and former SYRIZA PM Petros Tatsopoulos will be running as candidates for conservative opposition party New Democracy in the next general elections.

SYRIZA president Alexis Tsipras attempted to dampen things down within the party as a feud has been raging inside the party over statements made By deputy and popular author Petros Tatsopoulos.