And self-criticism was included in the interview of Pavlos Polakis, former deputy health minister of SYRIZA and candidate in the internal party presidential elections in his interview with the TV station “One” and the journalist Takis Hatzis.
“It’s my fault. It’s my fault too and I have no problem saying it. Man must recognize his mistakes as well as his right ones” Pavlos Polakis said in the report of Takis Hatzis that “They charge you Kasselakis”.
Referring then to how he met Stefanos Kasselakis, Mr. Polakis said that “I had met him in October 2022 as an expatriate and a young entrepreneur who wanted to engage with the public. Alexis Tsipras met him and put him on the ballot as an expat” said Pavlos Polakis.
“I don’t go down to lose” – “I was, I am and I will be SYRIZA”
To the question if Stefanos Kasselakis is elected, what he will do, Pavlos Polakis’ answer was clear:
“I have already declared that I was, am and will be SYRIZA because I want a governing left.”
“I don’t go down to lose,” he noted while revealing that as early as 2021 he had expressed disagreements about the course of the party. “I want mass participation. I want participation.”
The former minister appeared optimistic saying that “if people come en masse, I’m not afraid”, even seeing that public discourse has penetrated it “from the honest center-right to the extra-parliamentary Left. How do you think I got the municipality of Sfakia?” he wondered.
Why didn’t he support Efi Ahtsioglou?
Pavlos Polakis also gave an answer to the criterion by which he supported Stefanos Kasselakis against Efi Ahtsioglou and the “53”:
“I considered them responsible for the non-hard opposition line in the ND. And that’s why I supported him in the elections afterwards. He had said that there would be a political staff, a specific line, etc. There was neither a staff nor a political line. Everything was covered by the image of his personal over-promotion, his temperament, his wealth”, as he said. “He thought that was how things would go” he argued for Stefanos Kasselakis, to complete the result of the European elections “ND cannot lose 1.1 million votes and we lose 300,000.”
“I supported Tsipras like few others”
“I believed Alexis, it was one of the reasons I went to SYRIZA, I put my back as few as possible in the conflict with the entanglement and in setting up a Health system at his feet that we got from a memory malaise, a disaster. I’m proud of that”
“Me and Alexis Tsipras disagreed on a lot of things from 2021 onwards and it showed in 2023. I will not stand on the wall to shoot the first man of the Left after the war who said “let’s go govern””as he noted, “”in contrast to the KKE””.
And he added: “He assumed his responsibilities and Alexis resigned. Others did not resign”
Asked about the reasons for the overwhelming defeat of 2023, Mr. Polakis described that SYRIZA had followed a wrong political strategy, aiming “not to scare the centrists”.
As he said, “a huge part of SYRIZA” in its leading echelons he estimated that “Mitsotakis will fall like a ripe fruit”, characterizing the party’s opposition line as weak. Citing cases he had raised in the Transparency Sector of Koumoundourou, “Did you see that these constitute a central element of SYRIZA’s policy? Many of our comrades considered it a scandal.” commented, adding, moreover, to the causes of the defeat and the fact that “we came out with the line of simple analogy”. “Instead of asking the Greek people to give us first power”we said that we would collaborate with PASOK and the other progressive forces “and they spit on us”he noted.
A Public Bank is needed
“Four billion a year leaves people’s pockets and enters the banks as profits. Why? They have huge fees on all transactions and secondly they have a huge gap between their lending rates. If a bank is not under public control to drop the beat in the orchestra (…). I must have control of a bank. Are there no state banks in Europe? »
To add:
“We settled the debt. Until ’32 we have a clear corridor. That’s why Mitsotakis is also dancing and preparing the new bankruptcy in ’32, if we leave him another 4 years”
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