Stefanos Kasselakis officially announced his candidacy for the presidency of SYRIZA with a video he uploaded on social media.

Mr. Kasselakis wrote: “I am aware that I have no prior party service. My experience is in work, in social life. The candidacy I am now putting forward shows another path: From society and for society. Several generations were lost. It is time to build the Greek Dream that we so desperately need. With a state that ensures equality of opportunity. With a citizen whose future is not determined by where and how he was born.”

The announcement of Stefanos Kasselakis for the presidency of SYRIZA-PS in detail:

“My name is Stefano and I have something to tell you. I was born in Marousi in 1988. In a country with hereditary prime ministers. In a family with self-made parents.

My mother, a dentist, worked day and night to support my father while he started his company. Eventually this company grew and I found myself growing up in Ekali.

Except that this prosperity was ultimately superficial – just like Greece’s. The judicial circuit beat my parents and took everything they had and didn’t have.

So, at 14 I found myself alone in America. Not for luxury. Out of necessity. I was fortunate that one of the oldest high schools in the United States gave me a full scholarship. And later, the Andreas Dracopoulos scholarship allowed me to attend the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2009, at the age of 21 and in the midst of a financial crisis, I got a job at Goldman Sachs and saw firsthand what Capital is. Buying someone else’s effort cheaply. How much arrogance money brings.

That’s why I left this job. I got a loan with a personal guarantee, and three years later I managed to get into ocean shipping. Managed risk around the clock.

After much sweat, I took a big financial breath. But there is another breath, far more important: It is the breath of freedom.

I met Tyler when I was 31. A nurse in the ICU, he stayed awake next to the patients, while he did his doctorate in broad daylight. And as I had seen from my parents through thick and thin, when you find someone better than you, you do everything you can to keep them, no matter what others say.

I don’t have a gay agenda. I have a human agenda. With sentences that you read a few days ago, that others are afraid to say.

Privileges for the few and elite end, transparency everywhere, cuts to health, education, work, justice, separation of State – Church, abolition of compulsory service in the army.

I am aware that I have no party experience. My experience is in work and social life. So the candidacy that I am now putting forward shows another path: From society, for society.

Several generations were lost. The time has come to build the Greek Dream that we so desperately need. With a state that ensures equality of opportunity. With a citizen whose future is not determined by where and how he was born.

For the Greek Dream to become a reality, we must defeat those who benefit from a Greece that is a barren field and not Europe in practice.

Do you want to put a self-made person against the heir Mitsotakis?

Do you want to pit the so-called excellent against a person who speaks better English than them, who has beaten them in math competitions and degrees?

Do you want to put against the Prime Minister of so-called financial stability a person who knows better finance and business than him because he has worked and business?

Want to pit Greenberg’s staged Prime Minister against a person with empathy?

Do we want to put someone against Kyriakos Mitsotakis who will defeat him?

I have an appetite, I have absolutely no addiction, they can’t buy me, like they couldn’t buy Alexis.

My candidacy is radical, as is my life.

Let’s go together. By design. The Greek Dream has not been lost. Not even SYRIZA. Time to be reborn. Time for SYRIZA to become a winner again. Time for the modern left to act. Time to make every citizen proud”.