“There is no question of leadership when you have elections in a month,” stressed Dimitris Papadimoulis speaking in the morning on SKAI’s Today show, with Dimitris Oikonomou and Akis Pavlopoulos.

The SYRIZA MEP spoke of a shock defeat for his party, emphasizing:

“Up until the Friday before the elections, the opinion polls showed a difference of 6 to 7 points. We had set the goal of first place and we thought we would do better than the polls. And the result is a 20 point difference. So it’s a shock defeat and it shows that in addition to weaknesses and mistakes during the four years, we had a demobilization of SYRIZA in the last few weeks that neither the pollsters’ radars caught, nor us.
Also, it is incongruous with the atmosphere we used to get at the gatherings.

This mute vine was not expressed in a protest against government policy but in demobilization in the area of ​​the democratic opposition.

For SYRIZA, there is now one goal: In the elections that take place in a month, led by Tsipras, to make the corrections on the move that will make us do better.

SYRIZA must deal with this shock defeat by strengthening its collectiveness and cohesion and investing in the future.

There is no question of leadership when you have an election in a month.

After the elections we will make a fund and I believe, I believe that our collective bodies will launch an extraordinary meeting process.

Alexis Tsipras is the leader who raised the party from 4-5 to 35 and in the government and remains a great party despite our great defeat, he was elected with 99% recently by many and at the moment with the consent of all of us, he is lead this effort.

I believe that we should invest in the collective – the leadership model does not fit our area -. It would also be useful, in my personal opinion, to make use of some members of the new generation next to Tsipras who were selected by the popular vote, Efi Ahtsioglou, Alexis Haritsis, Nasos Iliopoulos and to build credibility as an opposition with a clearer plan why in 2023 , it’s not 2015,” Mr. Papadimoulis emphasized, among other things.