{"id":12049,"date":"2026-06-21T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12049"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:23:00","slug":"spanou-on-syriza-and-elas-it-will-mainly-be-mid-level-officials-who-leave-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12049","title":{"rendered":"Spanou on SYRIZA and ELAS: It will mainly be mid-level officials who leave (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     \u201cIt will mainly be mid-level officials who leave, so they can freely support Tsipras\u2019s party,\u201d explained the journalist, Angeliki Spanou, referring to the defections from <b>SYRIZA <\/b>to <b>EL.A.S. <\/b>of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>     In this context, the journalist, Angeliki Spanou also mentioned the upcoming reassignment of Kostas Zachariadis following his removal from the position of SYRIZA\u2019s press spokesperson. \u201c<b>Kostas Zachariadis <\/b>tried to push his own position. His position was more extreme\u2014that <b>SYRIZA <\/b>should not run in the elections and that this should be stated publicly,\u201d the journalist said. \u201cThat\u2019s the other paradox: <b>Famellos <\/b>has not stated this\u2014that SYRIZA will not run in the elections. SYRIZA, which is disappearing from the polls, is at 1%,\u201d noted the journalist, Angeliki Spanou. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Spanou on defections from SYRIZA to ELAS: \u201cIt will mainly be mid-level officials who leave, so they can freely support Tsipras\u2019s party. This is the case with Zachariadis, for example. He tried to promote his own position. His position was more radical, arguing that we should not\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/M69cbNhTVB<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 21, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    \u201cIt will mainly be mid-level officials who leave, so they can freely support Tsipras\u2019s party,\u201d explained journalist Angeliki Spanou, referring to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}