Tsipras is an avid football fan and, having grown up near the stadium, supports Panathinaikos, attending every home game that he can.
The alliance with the smaller parties was formed again at the end of 2005, when chairman Alekos Alavanos proposed the 30-year-old Alexis Tsipras as candidate mayor of Athens for the Municipal Election of 2006, proclaiming the party's "overture to a younger generation".
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On 10 February 2008 Alexis Tsipras was elected party president, replacing Alavanos, who stepped down citing private reasons.
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