The SYRIZA MP and former minister, Nikos Filis, expressed his strong disagreement with the proposal of Alexis Tsipras for election of a leader and Central Committee from the party base, who, speaking on ERT’s First Program 91.6 and 105.8, he said this would lead to a leadership party and a star system.
“There is pressure from the system to create leadership parties. When 300-400,000 vote in ND and PASOK to elect a leader, it is the assignment of a mandate without there being a control beyond that. In this trend that is strong today, they are trying to push SYRIZA as well. To become a party of systemic mutation. We do not agree. “I believe that we will discuss these proposals at our Congress and we will find a solution that will combine the democratic function and the leftist character of the party,” he stressed.
“SYRIZA members, 60,000 today, will vote for unknown people and based on what criteria,” he asked. “Here will be a Star system, they will vote for the Central Committee for Filis for example who is better known, or someone who will campaign from the media and not a competent person who helps with his daily practice and ideas in a district of Athens to be elected to the Central Committee. We do not want a party – star system, of bright stars or less bright, we want a party that is organized on the basis of equal participation of members, which means knowing each other and choosing. That is the reality, “he said.
He reiterated that there is a tendency in the system both in Greece and internationally, “that it does not concern the Left, to have supposed decentralization, essentially members who will not form organizations, but will have a loose digital connection many times, at the same time with a centralized top leadership. This figure does not represent us. “We want democracy at all levels of the party.”
“We are on this road, proposals were made by Alexis Tsipras, we have other views, we consider that a democratic party means a party that will not be a leader. It will work equally for all its members and will require the active participation of the people. Not assigning and highlighting issues to others. We will see all this in our conference, open, democratic with our differences, we are not afraid of our differences. “On the contrary, it is our strength, because the different views end up in compositions and strengthen the party”, he argued.
He admitted that there is a crisis of the party phenomenon as a whole, noting that overcoming this crisis is a necessary element to renew the Democracy, as there is no Democracy without political parties. “The question is which political parties? “Leading political parties, of the digital operation, which do not take into account the daily intervention and operation of the members, are post-democracy parties, which are easy to manage and join by various forces of economic interests and foreign political goals,” he pointed out. the same.
According to Mr. Filis, the key to the upcoming SYRIZA Congress, “is our proposal for the Right to leave. And in there we include our program, social and political alliances and an attractive left-wing political party. If we agree on these we will find the techniques. The debate is absolute only on the issue of the election of the leader – of course the election of a leader is very important – but it is outside the social interests of the majority of the people today. “The people want an effective party to oust the ND, we are talking about everything else.”
“We are calling for elections today”
Asked about the scenarios for early elections in May, the former minister called on ND to go to the polls whenever it wants. “Let them do it, we are calling for elections today, we have no fear. But on clear terms, not with fake election games that he would give a second increase in the basic salary while for so long he said that the Economy could not stand it and then gave a 50 minute increase per day to the basic salary, ie a bun. Or with the videos from Rafale with the ND logo. So you can not make clean elections. “It’s a story reminiscent of Mavroyalouros,” he said.
The objectives of the Conference
In addition, Mr. Filis described the goals of the SYRIZA Conference that will take place with a delay, due to the pandemic, March 31 to April 3.
“The first is to formulate a program that will be the basis of the Progressive Government, in view of the elections that should have already taken place in the crisis that plagues our society due to bankruptcy and authoritarianism with responsibility for government policy. “A program that can provide answers to the pressing problems of both the pandemic and the need for a modern Welfare State and Economy,” he stressed.
He added that the Congress will form a framework of political and social alliances, “because the alternative political government, that is, the removal of the Right and Mitsotakis from power, is not a simple electoral arithmetic, it is not a story of party change, “But it is a story of deterrence against the establishment of an authoritarian neoliberal regime in the country, and that means that there must be a broader coalition of political and social forces.”
“There are social forces that are primarily affected by the policy of ND, all these people who are called to live on 300-400 euros a month or unemployment. The vast majority of the employed and the unemployed are obviously at the heart of this political proposal that we want to formulate. The middle class people who have fallen through successive crises and the memoranda and the pandemic – the shopkeepers, the small and medium-sized businesses, the scientists. The majority of the population must be represented and contribute substantially to the overthrow of the current Mitsotakis government. “This means social resistance, social movements, democratic resistance to what we live every day, by building a regime of arbitrariness and injustice and inequality,” said the SYRIZA MP.
“This also means that an attractive party, which will inspire, will not lead in the traditional sense, not incite. We do not have such a perception. To inspire with his proposals and with his daily operation and action “, he clarified.
“Is this the thing SYRIZA is today?”, He wondered to give the answer himself. “To a large extent not, but this concerns all political parties, we are in a crisis of political parties. “And the answer to this crisis is the ability of the party to function democratically and, most importantly, to have specific political proposals that it is possible to co-shape with the vast majority of society,” he said.
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