SYRIZA – Kasselakis: The terms of the game regulate the presidential battle – 2024-09-17 16:29:12

Every day is another day for SYRIZA, making the puzzle of correlations completely fluid. Within this backdrop of constant shifts, balances remain delicate and fragile.

The fact that information about readjustment of the road map which will lead the official opposition party first to a congress and then to presidential elections from the grassroots, simply confirms the instability, despite the efforts to the contrary made by the strike team (Pappas, Famellos, etc.) during the TIF.

Political Secretariat for congress and elections

The acceleration of the procedures is something that will come back to the conversation and the Political Secretariat, which meets at 16:00 for the conclusions of the presence in Thessaloniki, will be asked to judge if there is a reason to change the final proposal to the Central Committee. It is something that the Kasselakis side, through Theodora Tzakris, has sought from the very beginning, in order to take advantage of the momentum with the prefectural committees, but it has also been publicly requested by the “autonomous” Pavlos Polakis.

It is true that the enlarged bloc of 87 now shapes the numerical conditions within the party’s governing bodies. So it affects the respective outcome of the votes. Therefore, the modification of the original plan does not seem to gather many possibilities. This quarter full of positions and strategy is preferred.

However, since introversion continues to plague SYRIZA and as time passes, the deterioration grows, it is not unlikely that second thoughts will arise to reduce the pre-congress dialogue and appeal to the polls. The final decision will be made by the Central Committee which will meet over the weekend.

What will Stefanos Kasselakis do?

It leaks from his environment that Stefanos Kasselakis prefers to wait for the ratified decisions of the bodies before revealing his exact intentions. For now his stance is confined to last week’s ‘I’m here’.

That he organizes himself with his close associates just in case is indisputable. Otherwise, he would not have withdrawn the power of attorney, giving another dimension to his confrontation with Koumoundourou.

After all, he should know if he will be referred, in the end, to the Ethics Committee of the party as executives are pushing, especially after Katerina Notopoulou’s serious complaints of bullying. On Tuesday, the parliamentarian from Thessaloniki maintained this major issue, asking for consent from the ousted president in order to make public what has been said between them in text messages.

“These behaviors have been reported to the party organs, the Political Secretariat and the Central Committee of SYRIZA,” he insisted to Action24.

St. Kasselakis also wants to know what form the SYRIZA conference will take. Whether it is emergency (nominations only) or statutory (as intended) matters as the terms of the game change.

How will they prevent the possible re-election of Kasselakis

In any case the opposing wing will fight to ensure that his nomination is not possible, setting rules such as signatures and where to go, so as to avoid an outcome like last year. Or in the worst case to prevent his re-election with a generalized recruitment of members and friends of the “traditional” SYRIZA. Even if the “fresh allies” of St. Kasselaki that if there are no strategies, he will prevail comfortably.

When the conditions for the presidential race are determined, the nominations will also begin to be made public. Besides, of course, those of Pavlos Polakis and Apostolos Gletsos who have from early on spoken about their personal involvement in the battle of the intra-party ballot box.