“Alexis Tsipras is here, and he will stay here, even if many people don’t like it,” said the SYRIZA executive, and a close associate of Alexis Tsipras, Olga Gerovasili. If he wants to put himself in the judgment of his members, he will do so, he clarified shortly after the statements of the president of SYRIZA from Koumoundourou.

Changes will happen. There is the next day, it is not tonight the changes. The elections are over, we have an election result which is a popular verdict, it sends the message to each party, and we get ours, we will see it with the corresponding moment, the moment is not suitable for a full analysis he noted.

“Very big changes have happened in society, and we have to look at them very carefully” noted Olga Gerovasili.

“First I will put myself in the judgment of the party members in this creative collective process of reconstruction,” he said earlier. Alexis Tsipras in his first reaction to the unfavorable election result for his party.

Speaking of major election defeat, he announced radical cuts to the party to address the visible dangers to democracy, following the strengthening of the right and far-right.

Speaking of “a big circle that has closed and a new one that is opening” he commented that at the same time we must proceed with the necessary cuts so that a new circle, even more hopeful, will soon and dynamically open.