Newcomer Stefanos Kasselakis beat former minister Efi Achtsioglou in first round of vote to become head of leftwing party
Stefanos Kasselakis: the political outsider hoping to revive the Greek left
The unexpectedly electric quest to elect a new leader of Greece’s main opposition party, the leftwing Syriza, has intensified as a runoff poll gets under way.
Voters began casting ballots at more than 500 polling stations nationwide in a race that has pitted a party cadre and former labour minister, Efi Achtsioglou, against a Greek American entrepreneur, Stefanos Kasselakis.
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