Pavlos Polakis launched a direct attack against Stefanos Kasselakis in his statements to OPEN. The SYRIZA MP pointed out, among other things, that he was wrong to support him for the presidency of the party.
“I was wrong to support Kasselakis. I decided last summer that we should regroup SYRIZA after Tsipras resigned. I considered that Mrs. Ahtsioglou could not lead things to the rechristening of SYRIZA and I considered that Stefanos Kasselakis as an intelligent, young child, not caught, said proposals with which I largely agreed, seeing that he had penetration among young people, he could proceed with a process of reconstruction of SYRIZA” he said initially.
Then speaking about where he believes he made a mistake, Mr. Kasselakis pointed out: “He lost it in a lot. In the first place he did not form a political staff. The parties of the left are not a one-man institution, although a leader is necessary. With Tsirpa there were instruments and they worked but there we fell into a story with a mechanism that was fleshing out. The hyper-promotion of his personal life covered up many things and rightly what he said and which was the result of the work of several people” added Mr. Polakis.
“It was a one man show in the European elections”
He then spoke about the friction they had stating: “I first disagreed with the stance on the F-35s and the yes that Kasselakis said and said that there must be an agreement in the institutions. He had spoken to me a bit badly but I didn’t say anything. Then I disagreed with the law on same-sex couples, it is unheard of for the government not to impose party discipline and for the opposition to do so. Why did we have to keep the declared Mitsotakis, because it is a matter of rights? If I were homophobic, I wouldn’t support Kasselakis for president, added the MP of Chania, but I don’t accept that it is the dominant thing in your political presence”.
In fact, he also referred to the European elections, but also to Stefanos Kasselakis’ Pothen Esches. “In the European elections, it was a one man show, we did not share anything with the Political Secretariat and the other institutions. We were greatly damaged by the story of where did you come from. These should not be at the forefront of the political presence” he said among other things.
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