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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-11-28
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[01] Alavanos to step down from party helm
[01] Alavanos to step down from party helm
Coalition of the Left (Synaspismos) leader Alekos Alavanos, who also
heads up the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) grouping in Parliament,
toured the large island of Crete on Wednesday, a day after he announced
that he will not vie for Synaspismos' presidency at an upcoming party
congress.
Alavanos, however, will remain as the head of SYRIZA's parliamentary
group.
While in the Cretan port city of Rethymno, Alavanos toured a local high
school, later decrying the poor conditions of the facility, as he said,
and calling for more funding of the education sector.
Later in the day, Alavanos was due to visit the infamous Zoniana
township in the mountainous portion of Rethymno prefecture, where a
police convoy came under assault rifle fire earlier in the month - an
incident that generated a massive police crackdown in the rugged area
to stamp out cannabis cultivation, drug smuggling and weapons running,
among others.
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