SYRIZA: Volcano roaring on the way to Congress and elections – 2024-09-19 21:08:03

The “pre-election” came alive again after the two-day rally at the TIF and SYRIZA suddenly landed in the thorny reality that it lives without interruption. Although as the president of KO, Nikos Pappas struggled for a good image from the outside, the return gave rise to new executive conflicts.

“Kasselakis was interested in the chair”

Katerina Notopoulou’s serious claim, in “Society Hour MEGA”, about “bullying by Stefanos Kasselakis” formed the context early on. The deposed president’s accusers defended the Thessaloniki MP who requested his referral to the Ethics Committee. They thus seized the opportunity to put a brake on the verification of a scenario that makes him a candidate again in the internal party elections after the congress, claiming his deletion.

“It turned out to be the only thing that interested Mr. Kasselakis it was the party’s chair, government funding and fortune” claimed Christos Spirtzis to ERT. At the same time, in his post, he added to Notopoulos’ reports that “the more the decadence and triviality of the 11 months is revealed, the more people who had dignity will be targeted.”

“Every expression of hatred and misogyny, every fake news and every derogatory comment with a garnish of threats, comes back as unacceptable from the recipient” also wrote the MP Christos Giannoulis. He even circulated as slanderers of the MP from Thessaloniki the “Afantas”, the “Karamanliks” and the “Corks”.

“Hiking for the wavering”

The deconstruction of the public complaint and, by extension, that of Kat. about a coup d’état.

“The Central Committee and the Political Secretariat are inferior bodies to the Congress,” Nikos Karanikas pointed out on SKAI television, predicting a new victory for him if no strategies intervene. At the same time, Evangelos Antonaros was talking to Mega about “trips” that were given “to those wavering to vote against Kasselakis in the KE”.

“It is not possible that 60-70 people voted for the impeachment over the phone,” State MP Elena Akrita added to ANT1.

Aris Spiliotopoulos, although he invoked Marx, hinted at Stalinist methods within SYRIZA in order to delete St. Kasselakis. The classic photo of the “disappeared” Nikolai Yezhov accompanied his tag. Before Kostas Zachariadis wonders, reacting decisively, if “he intervenes as a communication technocrat or as an executive of the new Kasselakis party”.

History when it repeats itself becomes a farce. Let’s keep that in mind when they write about deleting Kasselakis #сириза_пасикопима pic.twitter.com/qKV1XFH85r

— Aris Spiliotopoulos (@aris_spiliotop) September 15, 2024

“You’re booing from the light fixture”

The fact that the 36-year-old Greek-American proceeded to revoke the power of attorney for Christos Mavrokephalidis did not go unnoticed. After the new press representative, Pausanias Papageorgiou, made it clear to OPEN how “the party has political and organizational management”so it’s not going to stop working, the former financial director Thymios Georgopoulos reminded that “if you don’t have the keys to the door, you’re getting kicked by the light bulb” citing an “old American proverb”.

“I protect the party”

It is certain that the tug-of-war will have a similar continuation in the coming days. Especially while Stefanos Kasselakis is here, but does not reveal his intentions.

“I’ll wait to hear from him too” commented Nikos Pappas as he “has almost no political differences with anyone” recorded on paper. There were other mistakes as a result of which his election last year did not “perform as expected”. He also emphasized on Mega’s Live News that the task of each candidate for president is at this juncture “to answer how he can unite the party” so that he can then take a position.

Teboneras is out of the race

Among them is Apostolos Gletsos. Who warned that “if Kasselakis is elected again as president of SYRIZA, I will go home and not engage in politics”. But not Dionysis Teboneras who excluded himself from the race despite the rumor that he is a person of general acceptance within the 87.

“In our Left, the fight for ideas and values ​​does not go together with positions and offices” he wrote about it, reminding that he has never been a candidate until now. It is a stance that continues what he had said at the February Conference about chairs and offices. He envisions something new, broader.

“There is currently no talk about my candidacy,” Nikos Pappas demonstrated from his side. The president of KO heard too much as the “Judas” of “betrayal” against the former president. Nevertheless, he chose the distance, because from his institutional position he repeated his obligation “to protect the party” and “to highlight our common truth”.

A common truth, of course, which as a result everyone interprets it rather differently.