Syriza
Proper noun
Meaning
Syriza
Alternative form of SYRIZA
SYRIZA
(politics) the Coalition of the Radical Left, a Greek political party
Examples
North Macedonia is also moving toward getting into NATO after the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA in Greece lifted a bar to that as well as EU accession talks.
He also took the chance to snipe at Mitsotakis who must nominate a symbolic Greek President with the term of New Democracy’s Prokopis Pavlopoulos – the choice of SYRIZA in a traditional move giving that role to a rival – expiring in February.
Addressing his jubilant supporters in front of Athens' university, Mr Tsipras said Greek voters gave Syriza "a clear, powerful mandate".
But Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister under Syriza, it was also an extraordinary intervention into the democratic process by nerve-wracked pro-eurozone elites.
Before that, of course, was euphoria at the victory of Syriza in the Greek general election of January 2015.
Fears about the euro flared up again in 2015 as the left-wing Syriza party took control of Greece amid rumblings about a return to the drachma.