The candidacy of Stefanos Kasselakis, who is also a candidate for the leadership of SYRIZA, was characterized as an expression of the decline and degeneration of politics. Stefanos Tzoumakasspeaking today to SKAI.

“What does this have to do with public life? This is personal PR. How many SYRIZA officials have the ability to do these shows? They are in groups that operate in the big parties, these are nonsense, they are the waste of politics, they have nothing to do with politics” he said characteristically and continued saying that “SYRIZA emerged from the crisis and may not have ideological unity, but it has attempt to have political unity”.

“In this process various factors, various public relations people, who have companies, and candidates intervene” he added and mentioned that these are phenomena of decline.

“Are these related to political and social struggles? There are a lot of problems, young people can’t find housing, there is unemployment, a decline, we have the GDP of 2009,” Mr. Tzoumakas emphasized.

Asked to comment on the noise that has been created around the name of Mr. Kasselakis, Mr. Tzoumakas said that this whole phenomenon is manufactured by the media, it changes the agenda in relation to the problems that SYRIZA has and what path it should take to choose the official opposition party.

When asked if SYRIZA will come out united after the process, he answered: “It will come out united depending on the developments.”

Asked about the popularity of Mr. Kasselakis, he characteristically said: “Society is laughing.” He has passed in a world that is UFO, has nothing to do with social struggles and does not know about the interests that are behind. From the system is the turmoil. This is organized. Is this public life?’

And he went on to say that these are the expression of a party in motion that produced fighters and radicals, but also these decadent phenomena.

For his candidacyStefanos Tzoumakas stated that he ran for office to return to politics, as the previous period had nothing to do with politics, but with “political trade unionism” and during the Tsipras years.

“I go positive and appeal to a world with positive emotions to change things. First the country, the others have no value” he said.

In closing, he said: “Mitsotakis does his shift, others decide on the serious matters, such as the price of electricity. Where is Ms. Ursula, where is the prime minister? Nowhere. This is a defeat of the political party, it does not have the guts to say first the politics and then the stock market”.