While the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA was meeting in Koumoundourou for the last details of holding the extraordinary conference, Stefanos Kasselakis continued to “shoot” with posts.
“I request immediate information” wrote the former president of the party asking “24 hours before the start of the Congress, what is the exact number of congressmen?”
According to his claims, “the certification of the delegates is done by mail to each one individually, without the knowledge of the competent OM” with the aim that “they cannot compare the names with the lists of the actually elected delegates”.
“The trees will also be delegates”
“In other words, after they failed to make up the difference by cutting congressmen, they are now adding persons who were not elected,” he concluded.
He reiterated that “SYRIZA is under occupation”, predicting that “they are going for a ‘1961 conference’, in which the trees will also be delegates”. That is why he urged again “to be all the legally elected delegates tomorrow in the Congress area, on the ramparts”.
“We are more. Democracy is our answer” he concluded in his message.
What had happened in 1961
The elections on October 29, 1961, after the resignation of the Karamanlis government on 9/20, had been held under the thick shadow of controversy with serious allegations of state and parastate interference in the process.
The plan to “repel the advance of communism” had received the name “Askesis Pericles”. In the end, the pan-Hellenic ballot showed ERE as the first party with 50.77% (176 seats). The Center Union of G. Papandreou received 33.69% (100 seats) and the EDA ended up with 14.65% (24 seats).
It was the elections that inspired the popular saying “even the trees voted” given that from the testimonies of the time it appears that citizens, mainly members of the security forces, had voted more than once in various election centers, declaring residences that did not exist. Between them fields with trees.
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