Objections and disagreements between the members of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA were, as expected, during Thursday’s meeting in Koumoundourou.
“The party will respond to the challenges of candidates” Nikos Pappas reportedly said, calling the strategy of not reaching a quorum implemented in the Central Committee “unacceptable”. The president of the KO also claimed that “the court case was not withdrawn” and that the parallel website of Stefanos Kasselakis is “an attempt to create another party”.
Olga Gerovasili insisted that “SYRIZA must defend itself” and repeated that “Kasselakis has a plan that unfolds from the European elections and continues”.
As she explained in her statement, this is happening either “to keep part of the members and the party, dissolving with a right turn what we know so far” or “to try plan b” that will lead him “to his own party”.
“SYRIZA or Kasselakis”
According to Yiannis Ragousis “Kasselakis is absolutely clear”, as he “seeks to discredit SYRIZA so that he can then proceed to create his own party that will not have SYRIZA as a strong competitor”.
According to him it is a “widespread strategy in the field of business”. That is why, as he said, the dilemma that arises for every member and every friend of SYRIZA is neither the conference nor the decisions and the extra-judicial or the boycott of the organs, but the “SYRIZA or Kasselakis”.
According to Thanasis Theocharopoulos, who moved in the same tone, those who tried “artificially” to prevent the quorum undermined “the democratic functioning of the party”. He mentioned that St. Kasselakis “insults the Central Committee every day” even though it was “the same one that supported him until September”.
“Then it became delegitimized” he added in his post, agreeing that the creation of a page with the name of SYRIZA is “a choice to break with the party”. Therefore “there was rightly a vote of no confidence and his candidacy is not approved”.
Polakis: “You made me mad”
Pavlos Polakis equally criticized the attitude of both sides. On the one hand, addressing the majority, he said that “you have made her your m@λ@ki@” as a result of which they have turned the former president into a “wounded prince”. On the other hand, he said that what Stefanos Kasselakis does every time “looks like Adolf Hitlerism”, especially in what has to do with the “direct democracy” he invokes
“This ‘thing’ president does not come out, if normal people come to vote” he concluded.
On the other hand, Theodora Tzakri once again defended the former president, saying that “it is unacceptable that the Political Secretariat meets every week” to denounce him while all matters remain open. That is why he asked for answers both for the place where the conference will be held and for who gave the order for the announcement of the “irrevocable and immediately applicable decision of the Central Committee”.
Panos Rigas invoked article 16 of the statute saying that “anyone who wants to can submit a nomination to the conference without even thirty signatures and from where they come” pointing out that “the conference can decide on everything and do whatever it wants”, as ” has absolute sovereignty”.
“My neighbors avoid me because they feel sorry for me,” said Nikos Skorinis, describing the polarized climate.
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