EU Observer reports Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras is running a risky election strategy of attempting to claim a parliamentary majority in snap elections, even though a large portion of his party has defected. 53 of the 201 members of Syriza’s central committee resigned on Wednesday. Many of them have joined a new dissident party, Popular Unity, which was started by leftist former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis. Former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, is also taking shots at Tsipras for flip-flopping in his stance on austerity measures and Greece’s latest bailout package.