Athens – The leftist Greek party
Syriza dropped a controversial candidate for the post of regional governor of
Western Macedonia after he had made headlines with antisemitic
statements. Syriza announced that journalist Theodoros Karypidis would not
be running on the party’s ticket. In a brief statement, the party’s secretariat
revealed that Karypidis would no longer represent the party in the contest for
the region’s governorship, despite being selected to do so less than a week
earlier.
