SYRIZA is on the brink. Just before the extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee, the internal party camps of the official opposition are on a war footing. Now each possibility accumulates its own verification probabilities at the end of the process. The Political Secretariat did not back down from the initial decision to properly convene … Read more
Nikos Pappas, speaking to the Central Committee of SYRIZA, appeared sharp towards all those who “relativize the concept of the junta”. According to information, the president of KO said that such opinions “have no place in our lines”, preferring, however, not to personalize his reports. Speaking about the presidential candidates, Mr. Pappas said that “no … Read more
Tension was noted today in the Parliament during the debate on the land register. Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Zoe Konstantopoulou came into confrontation on the occasion of a report by the president of Freedom of Navigation on the Tempe accident. An exchange of points followed, in which the Speaker of the Parliament and Nikos Pappas intervened. … Read more
The gun went off and the start of the two-month race for the presidency of SYRIZA is in its first stages. Its starting point was the official filing of the candidacy of Pavlos Polakis to secretary Rania Svigou two days ago. A full month before his term expired (24/10), the MP of Chania (and again … Read more
An amendment for the protection of borrowers is being brought by SYRIZA and is expected to be tabled next week, during the discussion of the bill of the Ministry of Finance. The president of the parliamentary group, Nikos Pappas, in his statement from the caucus of the Parliament, appeals both to the parties of the … Read more
After the uproar caused by the post of the SYRIZA MP, Elena Akrita, “about the son of the washerwoman”, as she announced on social media, she submitted her resignation. Specifically, he stated that: “Despite the fact that I apologized for my mistake, I judged that I have a moral duty to resign from the Parliamentary … Read more
The tension recorded in Koumoundourou also passes through the corridors of the Parliament. On Friday morning, a transferred employee of SYRIZA tried to take his things from the office that previously belonged to the ousted president Stefanos Kasselakis and now belongs to Nikos Pappas. However, when he tried to enter, he was unable to open … Read more
Last year like this, Olga Gerovasili, a central figure in the impeachment motion against Stefanos Kasselakis, had said, before the internal party elections: “Sometimes splits are not bad”. After a few days, Stefanos Kasselakis was elected president and this year, before completing his term in leadership, the unprecedented thing happened in Greek political history: he … Read more
The SYRIZA Political Secretariat met as scheduled in order to outline the agenda before the Central Committee meeting next weekend. With the Bylaws Committee nowhere near done its work Wednesday night on the myriad structural changes proposed by leadership, including a name change, the PG’s lunchtime huddle seems moot. More the conversation will concern what … Read more
Pavlos Polakis appeared in a “wild mood” at the meeting of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA, which met at noon on Thursday. Having already announced his intentions both with last Sunday’s intervention and with the sharp statements after his rejoining the party’s parliamentary group, the Chaniot MP testified proposal of an immediate appeal to the … Read more