The total votes of the two candidates will be announced within the day (Monday 25 September) by the President of the Central Electoral Committee and Professor of Constitutional Law Yannis Drossos.
According to the data announced by Yannis Drossos earlier, when the 75% of votes were counted, Stefanos Kasselakis was already leading with 56.461 votes and 56,69% against Efis Achtsioglou with 43.139 votes and 43,31%. The result corresponds to the integration of 471 out of 537 polling stations. The total number of invalid and white votes was 1,19% of which 0,45% were white.
Drossos congratulated the 135,000 members of SYRIZA who, he said, «fought a multiple and difficult election battle». He also thanked «the comrades of the KEFE who guaranteed the good conduct with unanimous decisions and in a climate of cooperation, as well as the election committees in all polling stations of the country». Drossos pointed out that it was a demanding process and recalled that in the past another party «messed up» in its own elections, referring to the elections for the presidential election of the New Democracy.
Congratulations from Alexis Tsipras
As it became known, the outgoing president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, called the two candidates, the winner of the contest, Stefanos Kasselakis and Efi Achtsioglou, and congratulated them for the fight they put up.
The first statements:
St. Kasselakis: SYRIZA will win from now on
«Today we are smiling, from tomorrow hard work begins,» stressed in his first statements from Koumoundourou as the new president of SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance, St. Kasselakis, after his victory in the second round of the internal party elections.
The new president of SYRIZA, speaking to the people gathered outside the party's headquarters and shouting slogans, referred to the people affected in Thessaly who, he said, «have gone through great difficulties, are alone and have another great difficulty ahead of them. I hope that the state will stand by their side» (in detail the statements of St. Kasselakis here)
Effie Achtsioglou: From tomorrow a great struggle begins (video)
«From tomorrow, a great struggle begins, to exercise a militant and structural opposition to the government of the New Democracy and to give perspective and hope to those people who can and deserve to live better,» said Efi Achtsioglou in her statements earlier at the headquarters of SYRIZA-PS.
«Voting for me was the greatest honour of my life», said Ms Achtsioglou, who noted that «I will serve her with dedication».
Efi Achtsioglou also said that she called Stefanos Kasselakis and congratulated him on his victory, thanked those who went to the polls and stressed that the participation in the elections shows that «SYRIZA-PS is socially present to face the battles to come.»
