Former Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Yannis Panousis listed a series of mistakes that Alexis Tsipras made during his seven-month tenure as prime minister.

With popularity at rock bottomand the people frustrated, the probability of Alexis Tsipras suffering defeat in the elections is now a distinct possibility.

SYRIZA spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili on Wednesday rejected outright any possibility of a coalition between SYRIZA and New Democracy after the elections on September 20, following a chance encounter between the two party leaders at an airport in Crete earlier in the day.