SYRIZA: They are counting the delegates now – The composition of the delegates is critical for the correlations –

“Whoever is elected president, he will have to have the qualities of a highlander – and they are not enough – to restore SYRIZA to political action” said a Koumundourou executive shortly after the last meeting of the Ethics Committee, which was also divided, as it is now. all collective bodies at all levels of the party apparatus of Koumoundourou. “Casselists”, “tsiprics”, “87+”, “107” , single headed towards the battle of battles. The conference is a landmark, while without priority being given to the discussion of political and programmatic proposals, the divisive confrontations continue, on the way to the election of a new leadership. Koumoundourou enters the final stretch of developments, in any case “traumatic”. However, the next crucial stage is the two-day November 2-3 election of delegates for the congress, which (if it takes place on the scheduled dates of November 9-10) will lead to the election of a president from the grassroots.

All eyes are on the anthropo-geography that will be shaped by the composition of the congresses and meanwhile the meeting of the Political Secretariat next week will show moods and movements of executives for the next day.

The deadline has passed

The deadline for submitting nominations has expired and, on the basis of a decision of the Central Committee, which is disputed by the former president of SYRIZA Stefanos Kasselakis and executives who support him, Kasselakis’ candidacy has been rejected, due to a substitute attitude and anti-party behavior, according to his critics. The candidates who will be freely proposed for approval at the conference are Apostolos Gletsos, Pavlos Polakis, Sokratis Famellos and Nikolas Farandouris.

The Kasselakis question the decisions of the majority, especially the proclamation of Steph. Kasselakis as deposed, and claim in every way that he be given the opportunity to pass his candidacy through the congress and be judged by the grassroots. And all this while he has opened offices in Tavros and invited those close to him to register in the member organizations (OM) in order to form a wave of voters/delegates afterwards, while in the background, according to his critics, he is preparing for a new party.

The 87+ and other anti-Kasselakis are worried and are divided at least in two, focusing on the postponement or not of the conference, but with one main difference: others argue that the decision of the Central Committee as a decisive body that decided the election of Kasselakis should not be changed and others that the delegates should be given the opportunity to decide on Kasselakis’ candidacy, so that if nothing else the anti-democratic “displacements” are not propagated.

So this is why the composition of the delegates is crucial, as Koumundourou executives explain. Whoever mobilizes more members of the OM and has an upper hand in the registrations that ended just a few days ago can change the correlations at the conference. And either lead to the lifting of the censure/discount/rejection of the Kasselakis candidacy or let things remain as they are. Of course, the fear that there will be incidents at the conference by pro-hospitality appears as an element that they project

MPs are already appearing to announce that they will… shake a scarf if it is taken away from Steph. Kasselakis the right to participate in the elections. In fact, Corfu MP Alexandros Avlonitis has spoken publicly about “substitute violence” and has warned that even if the same logic is followed at the conference, it will “go away”. He has not clarified whether he means that he is leaving for his home or for the independence in the parliament while keeping the parliamentary seat.

On the same wavelength and with a pre-announced “exit” is the MP of Kilkis Petros Pappas, while MPs such as the MP of B3 South, among others, are waiting, without outlining the position they will take if the developments are connected to replacement developments in their view SYRIZA sector Rallia Christidou, MP of 2nd Piraeus Nina Kasimati and MP of Pella and secretary of KO Theodora Tzakri.

In fact, the “kasselistas” have drawn a new “line” in the context of the conference battle, with a call for delegates to come not for Steph. Kasselakis but for democracy… This position was expressed in a recent public intervention by Theod. Jakri.

Intervention by Tsipras

Every move of the former prime minister and former president of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, is illuminated in the public sphere, against the background of the developments in Koumoundourou. Against the background of the risk of the structural political collapse of SYRIZA – PS, Tsipras’s intervention with an event around economic developments and accuracy is decoded by Koumundourou officials and not only as the start of an informal dialogue for another center-left, which can produce policy and be able in the medium and long term to be the leaven for an alternative government solution to the inequality policy of the ND government.

At the open event of the Alexis Tsipras Institute on the economy, he limited himself to pointing to the model of the New Popular Front in France, while regarding the great center-left he pointed out that it seems that the addition (of forces) is not enough, but a new type of approach is needed. Many saw behind his mention that there can be no “political subject of change” without social processes, an indirect formulation of a new formation in the so-called progressive center. At the same time, the choice of speakers from SYRIZA and PASOK (former Ministers of Economy Yannis Dragasakis, Louka Katselis, Giorgos Houliarakis, Nikos Christodoulakis) referred to a movement in the center-left with a wide political openness. It is noteworthy that executives from all over SYRIZA were present.