About Alexis Tsipras:
Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician, who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 26 January 2015 to 27 August 2015 and leader of the left-wing Syriza party since 2009. He was first elected to the Greek Parliament in 2009, and was the Party of the European Left nominee for President of the European Commission in the 2014 European Parliament election. On 25 January 2015, Tsipras led Syriza to victory in a snap general election, receiving 36% of the vote and 149 out of the 300 seats in the Parliament and went on to become the 186th Prime Minister of Greece. In 2015 he was voted by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people globally. On 20 August 2015, seven months into his term as Prime Minister, Tsipras announced his resignation, and called for an election, to take place the following month.