SYRIZA Conference: Fire team against Kasselakis – Those who are leaving should hand over their seats –

With speeches by the presidential candidates (Apostolos Gletsos, Pavlos Polakis, Sokratis Famellos and Nikolas Faradouris) the work of the extraordinary conference of the SYRIZA PS continues, which ends today, as has been announced.

Earlier the floor was taken by the delegates who opened fire against Stefanos Kasselakis and those who left or are thinking of leaving.

It is recalled that so far their independence has been announced by the MP of Corfu, Alexandros Avlonitis, the MP of Kilkis, Petros Pappas, the MP of B3′ South Sector of Athens, Rallia Christidou and the MP of Halkidiki, Kyriaki Malama.

Kostas Arvanitis: Those who are thinking of leaving should hand over their seats

“Those MPs who are thinking of leaving the party should thank Alexis Tsipras for putting them on these lists and surrender the seats,” said Kostas Arvanitis.

“The seats belong to SYRIZA PS. No more kidding, we will not tolerate it, we will be very strict, no more petting. The words ‘comrades’ have value and dignity, at least leave with dignity”, he added addressing those SYRIZA MPs who break away to follow Stefanos Kasselakis.

Tryfon Alexiadis: We elect a president of the party, not a ruler or a prince

“We are in the next day, we are electing a president of the party, not a ruler or a prince. And the article of the statute clearly states where the president moves, in the context of the decisions of the EC”, said Tryfon Alexiadis. He spoke about the problems of the party’s operation, adding that whoever is elected president, if he does not respect the statute and his commitments, he will be the first to criticize. He commented that “yesterday proved and highlighted our organizational crap, it was a black day. The photo I saw afterwards, so many people waiting outside and few people inside, is the responsibility of all of us and we must apologize profusely to the comrades who suffered and we must all pledge that it will not happen again.”

Dimitris Chatzisokratis: We now have to measure ourselves

“We now have to measure ourselves. Let the people come to the polls for the election of the leader to show that this space is not dying”, said Dimitris Chatzisokratis. Putting against Mr. Kasselakis commented that “what happened last night here and today in Taurus was the end of a chronicle of a hidden split and the beginning of a new course of another ‘movement'”. “The reality showed the plan for the split, but it was so obvious where it was going for so long,” he said.

He commented that Mr. Kasselakis in Tavros “dare” to say that he was in a dilemma yesterday about whether to legitimize the conference with silence or to speak, “but delegates had spoken earlier”. He said in particular that in any case the number of 2,784 who voted yesterday for the decisions of the conference is greater than the 1,934 signatures delivered by Th. Jakri. “That’s the reality,” he said.

Giorgos Vassiliadis: To build on our structures, to speak politically again, not to repeat our mistakes

The position that the main problem of SYRIZA was that “we stopped talking to each other politically, we lost the thread with the working class, George Vassiliadis expressed, arguing that the big bet of the next day is for SYRIZA to talk politically with society again.

“We need a strong SYRIZA because the next day will be difficult. To build on our structures, to speak politically again, not to repeat our mistakes”, he said, adding that in order to do this, a strong SYRIZA is needed and to become a leader in the restructuring of the space. “Let’s get back out of the offices and back into the streets,” he continued, stressing that the elections should become a point of re-start.

Yesterday, on the first day of the Congress, the nominations for the presidency of the party of: Apostolos Gletsos, Pavlos Polakis, Sokratis Famellos, Nikos Faradouris were approved as well as the text of the political decision.