Basketball player Nikos Pappas will be his candidate SYRIZA-PS for the municipality of Athens, party chairman Alexis Tsipras announced today during his speech to the Central Committee:

Mr. Tsipras mentioned in the framework of cooperation on local government elections: “Many municipalities already have processes for allocating appropriate combinations. We control and encourage them. Our goal is to promote victorious votes and broad progressive cooperation, of course, taking into account, of course, local specifics in each specific case.”

Then he announced the nomination of candidates for major municipalities: “The long journey of suffering and family relationships must end someday. The desire of renowned international basketball player Panathinaikos and former AEK member Nikos Pappas to lead such an effort is a very positive development. In the municipality of Piraeus, we have the pleasure of supporting a proven fighter for the left and self-government, since he was the deputy governor of Piraeus and the islands for five years, Giorgos Gavrilis. In the municipality of Patras, the chairman of the Technical Chamber, Vassilis Aivalis, called for a broad vote for the cooperation of progressive forces. The municipality of Peristeri has one of the most successful local administrators, the current mayor Andreas Pachaturidis. In Larissa, the no less successful mayor is Apostolos Kalogiannis. In Agrinio, the authoritative and militant lawyer Dimitris Trapeziotis.”

^{Source: APE-MEB}