MEP Farantouris officially joins PASOK after SYRIZA split

[InTime News]

Nikolas Farantouris, a erstwhile SYRIZA MEP who had been sitting arsenic an autarkic since his expulsion successful January, officially joined the main absorption enactment PASOK connected Thursday evening.

Earlier successful the day, Farantouris had signaled the move, saying helium would “not stay autarkic forever” and that “decisions soon” were coming.

Welcoming him astatine a gathering successful Parliament, PASOK person Nikos Androulakis said the MEP and prof of European instrumentality would strengthen some the enactment and the Socialists and Democrats radical successful the European Parliament. 

He expressed assurance that Farantouris would lend to the propulsion for “political change,” framing the broader extremity arsenic defeating the ruling New Democracy and opening “a caller chapter” marked by organization respect, just improvement and reduced inequalities.

Farantouris said PASOK is “the lone party” capable to present needed reforms, guarantee a strong European and planetary presence, and safeguard κοινωνικά justice, urging wide antiauthoritarian information successful what helium described arsenic an “all-out effort.”

Farantouris was expelled from SYRIZA’s European Parliament radical successful January aft remarks successful which helium said helium would “welcome” the instauration of a caller governmental enactment by Maria Karystianou, astatine the time, the Tempe railway victims’ caput activist, who has since founded a governmental movement.