MEP Androulakis is candidate for Movement for Change leadership
Nikos Androulakis, 42, a socialist MEP since 2014, has announced he will be a candidate for the leadership of Movement for Change.
He is the third candidate for the position, joining Fofi Gennimata, 57, the socialist alliance’s leader since 2017, and Andreas Loverdos, 65, a former minister and MP since 2000.
The election is expected to take place later this year; the timeline will be announced in September.
Movement for Change, a center-left alliance of socialist parties that includes the formerly governing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), won 8.1% of the vote in 2019 and has 22 MPs in the 300-member Parliament.