“We must all make it clear that these images we saw have nothing to do with the left and the progressive faction, with the kindness, the culture of the people of the left,” commented Sokratis Famellos, starting his speech at the extraordinary conference.
The candidate for the party’s president said that “the party is the victim of the attack that has been carried out lately and those who are victims and do politics with intrigue are the ones who cannot do real politics.”
“We decide today that we are returning to politics, to the politics of needs,” he stressed, adding that “we are all committed to restarting SYRIZA from whatever position the base of SYRIZA decides. We were SYRIZA, we are SYRIZA and we will be SYRIZA.” “The new president will not be a position of power, but a position of responsibility and he will also be controlled,” he said.
He claimed that it is no secret that behind the major internal party crisis the party is going through is the questioning of SYRIZA, because “they fear the ruling left, that’s why they have targeted it”. “Recently, the anti-SYRIZA front entered the party as well and arguments were used to satisfy an obsessive person-centered attack on the legacy of SYRIZA,” he added.
He emphasized that “the question of the elections is whether there will be a proposal of a government exit in a progressive direction”. To the question: “can we?”, he said that he saw a party of 2-3% that they didn’t think could become a government,” but it happened because he listened and talked to the Greek society, he didn’t live in offices and didn’t deal with intrigues and didn’t made lifestyle politics”. “This is the lever to achieve the big turnarounds,” he emphasized. “I believe in and love this party. It is my family, my identity and my life. Today, when many believe that its fate is dissolution, we must send a message from here that our fate is to return again and provide a governmental solution to society. We must all say together that we believe it and we will all guarantee it together.”
He also mentioned that “the left and SYRIZA can withstand the crises, but we have to make a big turn to go from ‘me’ that hurt us to ‘together’. The power of ‘with you I invite us to remember again’.
Mr. Famellos set his main programmatic positions and attacked the policy of the Mitsotakis government and argued that the conditions for a strong social majority are being formed. He emphasized that “there are three sacred relics that have been challenged in the last period that we must agree to defend: the values of the left, the struggles of its people and the government of Tsipras and the Left. We don’t give these legacies to anyone.”
He invited everyone to “restart to rebuild our home, SYRIZA that we all defended today with collectiveness and prudence”.
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