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Stefanos Kasselakis
Stefanos Kasselakis (Greek: Στέφανος Κασσελάκης; born 29 March 1988) is a Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician who previously served as the leader of Syriza. He is now the leader of the political party Democrats - Progressive Center, which he founded in November 2024.
Kasselakis spent a considerable portion of his life residing in the United States, where he worked in the banking and shipping sectors and contributed as a writer for The National Herald. He was registered as a Republican, supported Kyriakos Mitsotakis and endorsed his candidacy for party leader in 2015. He was an MP candidate with Syriza in the May and June 2023 Greek parliamentary elections.
In the 2023 Syriza leadership election, he secured a surprising victory over Effie Achtsioglou. However, a few months after his win, Syriza underwent a division, resulting in the departure of 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) and three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who exited the party in protest of Kasselakis' ideology and practices. The ideological shift and lack of clarity within the party led to substantial criticism of its leadership, particularly after the 2024 European Parliament elections, where Syriza’s share of the vote further dropped to 14.9%.
As a result of the growing discontent, 87 members of the party's Central Committee filed a motion of no confidence against him. On 8 September 2024, the party's Political Secretariat declared that he was being removed from office.
After these events Kasselakis was briefly a candidate for the 2024 Syriza leadership elections before being blocked from running by the party's 2024 conference, resulting in Sokratis Fammellos becoming his successor. With him 6 MPs left Syriza following his departure, of which 5 joined his new party.
Stefanos Kasselakis, second son of Theodoros Kasselakis (Skines, Crete, 1949) and Evangelia (Lia) Apostolou (Athens, 1952) was born in Athens on 9 March 1988. He has an older brother, Stelios Kasselakis. Born into a wealthy family, he grew up in a mansion in Ekali, considered one of the most luxurious houses in this bourgeois district, and studied at Athens College, also an educational institution for wealthy families. A former classmate recalled that he was "a man of quality, always devoted to reading. He had experienced bullying himself. He was a man who was dedicated to his studies and some people didn't like that. He was made fun of because of his big bag, but Stefanos never bullied anyone.”
In 2002, the house in Ekali, which had been bought two months after Stefanos' birth in 1988, was sold for 3,228,173 euros.
Stefanos Kasselakis' father, Theodoros Kasselakis, President and CEO of CASCO SA, was the representative of Casco Kansai Paint in Greece. In 2003, a lawyer and partner of Theodoros Kasselakis filed a fraud lawsuit accusing him of embezzling €764,000. According to the court ruling, his father lost his company. According to the indictment, Mr Theodoros Kasselakis allegedly presented his partner with non-existent financial obligations of the company, which the latter then paid, believing them to be real, with the promise from Kasselakis that sales of materials would follow which would exceed the money paid. According to the pleadings, the complainant had lost more than €750,000 in this way. By court order, the management of the company was removed from Kasselakis' father. The case was ultimately not heard, as the two sides agreed to an out-of-court settlement in 2018. The plaintiff withdrew his complaint, and the defendants were found innocent.
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Stefanos Kasselakis
Stefanos Kasselakis (Greek: Στέφανος Κασσελάκης; born 29 March 1988) is a Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician who previously served as the leader of Syriza. He is now the leader of the political party Democrats - Progressive Center, which he founded in November 2024.
Kasselakis spent a considerable portion of his life residing in the United States, where he worked in the banking and shipping sectors and contributed as a writer for The National Herald. He was registered as a Republican, supported Kyriakos Mitsotakis and endorsed his candidacy for party leader in 2015. He was an MP candidate with Syriza in the May and June 2023 Greek parliamentary elections.
In the 2023 Syriza leadership election, he secured a surprising victory over Effie Achtsioglou. However, a few months after his win, Syriza underwent a division, resulting in the departure of 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) and three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who exited the party in protest of Kasselakis' ideology and practices. The ideological shift and lack of clarity within the party led to substantial criticism of its leadership, particularly after the 2024 European Parliament elections, where Syriza’s share of the vote further dropped to 14.9%.
As a result of the growing discontent, 87 members of the party's Central Committee filed a motion of no confidence against him. On 8 September 2024, the party's Political Secretariat declared that he was being removed from office.
After these events Kasselakis was briefly a candidate for the 2024 Syriza leadership elections before being blocked from running by the party's 2024 conference, resulting in Sokratis Fammellos becoming his successor. With him 6 MPs left Syriza following his departure, of which 5 joined his new party.
Stefanos Kasselakis, second son of Theodoros Kasselakis (Skines, Crete, 1949) and Evangelia (Lia) Apostolou (Athens, 1952) was born in Athens on 9 March 1988. He has an older brother, Stelios Kasselakis. Born into a wealthy family, he grew up in a mansion in Ekali, considered one of the most luxurious houses in this bourgeois district, and studied at Athens College, also an educational institution for wealthy families. A former classmate recalled that he was "a man of quality, always devoted to reading. He had experienced bullying himself. He was a man who was dedicated to his studies and some people didn't like that. He was made fun of because of his big bag, but Stefanos never bullied anyone.”
In 2002, the house in Ekali, which had been bought two months after Stefanos' birth in 1988, was sold for 3,228,173 euros.
Stefanos Kasselakis' father, Theodoros Kasselakis, President and CEO of CASCO SA, was the representative of Casco Kansai Paint in Greece. In 2003, a lawyer and partner of Theodoros Kasselakis filed a fraud lawsuit accusing him of embezzling €764,000. According to the court ruling, his father lost his company. According to the indictment, Mr Theodoros Kasselakis allegedly presented his partner with non-existent financial obligations of the company, which the latter then paid, believing them to be real, with the promise from Kasselakis that sales of materials would follow which would exceed the money paid. According to the pleadings, the complainant had lost more than €750,000 in this way. By court order, the management of the company was removed from Kasselakis' father. The case was ultimately not heard, as the two sides agreed to an out-of-court settlement in 2018. The plaintiff withdrew his complaint, and the defendants were found innocent.