Theodora Tzakri informed the Central Committee of SYRIZA about the filing of a candidacy for the presidency by Stefanos Kasselakis with the signature of 87 signatures and accompanying document the prerequisite criterion of his “where did he come from”.
As conveyed by Yiannis Voulgarakis who left the meeting room, it is about the formalization of the former president’s participation in the process of appointing a new leader of the faction in the context of “honesty and probity”. A nomination “for victory” as he characteristically informed.
According to the people close to Stefanos Kasselakis, the number of 87 signatures is completely symbolic, because it corresponds to the “group of 87” that supported the motion of censure, as a result of which confidence in the elected pr.
Tzakri: “Whatever they do, they cannot prevent the new from being born”
Immediately after, Theodora Tzakri made a public statement. “A diversion was completed today. A momentous majority of yesterday not only overturned the road map of the conference that she had voted for, but today announced that the conference will not fit everyone,” he said initially.
“After the secret votes and telephone votes, we arrived at the zoom conference that will be handled by themselves precisely to silence the voice of the Greek people,” he also complained.
He warned that “no matter what they do, they cannot prevent the new thing from being born, no matter what they do, they cannot prevent society from electing Stefanos Kasselakis president of SYRIZA, who has been yours since the first Sunday”.
“So today I submitted before the Commission the 87 symbolic signatures that support the candidacy of Stefanos Kaselakis, 87 those who I overthrew him and where they are related to and I declare that all the rest will be told at the ballot box with his solemn election to the presidency SYRIZA” he concluded.
“You break everything up, our ways part here”
Shortly before the KE step, Mrs. Tzakri had argued in a very strong tone that “all that is happening has nothing to do with a democratic party. Really, after years of giving and participating in SYRIZA-PS, I feel for the first time that I don’t recognize you anymore.”
According to her, “here there is a technical majority that seeks the dissolution of the party. And there is an entire society out there that wants to see the SYRIZA-PS government and Stefanos Kasselakis as prime minister.
All that you have methodized, are methodizing, and are capable of methodizing cannot be legitimized in anyone’s consciousness.”
“You have escaped” he claimed and continued by noting “And because the members will not give you the party, we part ways here organizationally and the answer will be given to you by the people at the ballot box of the president. Games over. End of intrigue. Factions finally. Underestimating the intelligence of the members finally.
And today I denounce you for the following method: To expose you to all the members who will learn the last word of the truth. From the day you did what you did against Stefanos Kasselakis, you decided that we have a conference on November 1-3.
And since you manage the party after the departure of Stefanos Kasselakis, you had an obligation and room to find the road map that you voted for and implement it. And you come today, TODAY, without any warning to announce to us that you didn’t even find a room, and you change the road map and you are coldly indifferent to the planning of the lives of thousands of delegates and the most unheard of thing this morning I heard you say with my ears to Politics Secretariat that you don’t have a hall that can accommodate the delegates and you don’t want to find why you want to silence the voice of the people.
You dissolve everything. You are violating the statute. You are the worst version of a small and helpless Left that was lifted by the people and brought to power in 2015. You are destroying the legacy of Alexis Tsipras. And not Stefanos Kasselakis.
So today I submit here before you the signatures which are symbolically 87, all those who threw him and where did you come from Stefanos Kasselakis. And from today, time is counting down. Do your thing and the people will do theirs. Good luck to you.
The answer of Gerovasili and the 87
According to information, Olga Gerovasili argued from her side that “there are no presidential candidates by representatives”.
He wanted to remind at the same time that “the conditions for submitting a candidacy are not two, but three. It is also the respect for the statutory principles, the values and the collective decisions of the party”.
“Anyone who does not respect the democratic decisions of the majority is not talking about SYRIZA – PS but about another party” he said characteristically and called on Theodora Tzakri “to retract the insulting and insulting things she uttered from this stage at the expense of comrades and comrades”.
Also, from members of the Central Committee who belong to the block of 87, the information was leaked that the document of Stefanos Kasselakis only contains the names of 87 people and not, at least for the press, their signatures.
The first departure of the “treasurer block
Earlier, members of the Central Committee supporting Stefanos Kasselakis had temporarily left the meeting room in order not to be present while the SYRIZA presidential candidates were speaking.
The mass exodus of about 20-25 people, accompanied by accusations, happened when Pavlos Polakis took the stage.
In the same context of protest, former MP Thanasis Oikonomou informed that he will file a candidacy in order to speak from the floor of the Central Committee. It was an act of parodying the process as a knee-jerk reaction.
The final departure of the “allies” Kasselakis
The second act of withdrawal took place shortly afterwards. In this case, the members of the higher body close to Stefanos Kasselakis left, complaining of fraud and absolute violation of the statute.
All this immediately after the speech of Theodora Tzakris, who informed about the filing of a candidacy by the deposed president with the symbolic number of 87 signatures and the document of why.
Thanos Moraitis: “The masks have fallen”
Thanos Moraitis justified the departure of the KE members who belong to the “Kasselakian” bloc.
Speaking to journalists, the director of the KO, said: “It is clear that some people are afraid of the members, they are afraid of the SYRIZA party base that you and what they have organized since yesterday was a method of postponing the conference because they are not only afraid of the members, they are also afraid the conference.
We denounced this process. It’s a process we never expected to see in a left-wing democratic party. But we are in the battle for the great open democratic conference of SYRIZA that will give all the answers to all the strategies and all those that are happening at the moment and mainly hurt our members and our party base.
As he continued, answering in relation to the number of delegates and the way of their participation, “some may wish to do it and methodize it. The masks have fallen and various scenarios are currently being prepared. We will not legitimize this process with our presence at this meeting.”
“We are working and fighting together with the organized party base of SYRIZA to have a successful congress that will give clear answers. There will also be a congress and presidential elections, keep this clear in your mind” he concluded.
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