“Panspoudastiki KS”, the list supported by KNE in the universities, came first for the fourth year running in the university student elections held throughout Greece on Wednesday 14 May, with 33.64% of the vote and 17,313 votes. The list supported by the New Democracy government (DAP) came second with 23.93%, while the list of the social-democratic PASOK (PASP) came third with 10.88%. The forces of SYRIZA, also social-democratic, won only 0.64%.

In a statement, the Secretary of the Central Council of KNE, Thodoris Kotsandis, stressed among other things:

“We salute the thousands of students who took part in the student elections and gave Panspoudastiki KS the first place in the country for the fourth year in a row.

The students spoke and sent a message of demand and hope. They condemned the government’s policies that lead to daily incidents like Tempe and put obstacles in their studies and lives. With new forces, we continue with more massive and effective struggles to lead the student movement to counterattack.

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The members of KNE, together with the thousands of militant students who participated in the lists of Panspoudastiki, take the great responsibility and the initiative to proceed more decisively with the militant regroupment of the student movement. The indignation of the youth that challenges the dominant policies can be expressed in the coming period by a more active participation in the student unions and struggles.

The thousands of students who supported Panspoudastiki and many others who are worried about their present and future have an interest in taking up the cause of the collective demand for active, militant student unions that resist the anti-popular policies of the government and the European Union, for a modern, exclusively public and free university that serves social needs and not of profit.

With the KKE and KNE we are paving the way for the overthrow of the policies that deprive students of their studies, their future and their oxygen”.

15.05.2025