A war broke out within SYRIZA after the announcement of the candidacy of Stefanos Kasselakis.

Without hesitation, former SYRIZA MP Nikos Filis opened fire on Mr. Kasselakis, saying: “We need politicians who will not be ‘planted’ by instagram and various interests. We don’t need messiahs.”

“We have to see his positions,” he said and continued saying that “we need politicians who will emerge from society.”

“He doesn’t even know who SYRIZA is,” he said of the party’s presidential candidate.

“Unfortunately, not only in Greece, but internationally and coming to Greece as well, we have the model of Instagram politics. The politicians who suddenly become famous from Instagram. They have nothing to do with society. They are party goers. Yesterday I heard Mr. Kasselakis supporting Mr. Mitsotakis, when he was a candidate for the presidency of the ND. We don’t need messiahs, but politicians who will give a voice to society and will not be “planted” by instagram and various interests”, said the SYRIZA executive.

To the journalist’s question, if he means that they “planted” Mr. Kasselakis, Nikos Filis replied that “it does not arise through the Greek political processes”.