Can Edek find a reason to exist?

Four candidates will be standing in the elections of the leadership of Edek on September 5. The elections were made necessary by the resignation of party leader Nicos Anastasiou, after the humiliating showing in last May’s parliamentary election, in which Edek, for the first time in its history, failed to win a single seat.

Anastasiou had been party leader for less than a year, having taken over after the turbulent ten-year leadership of Dr Marinos Sizopoulos, who left the party divided and...