I want us to agree on a long-term plan for the identity of SYRIZAfor our reports, for our renewed programmatic reason and the where we want to be in 2026emphasized Euclid Tsakalotos explaining to SKAI what he wants to do if elected to the leadership of SYRIZA.

“You will serve this plan at the same time by criticizing Mr. Mitsotakis for everything that is done, a wide range of things. You are a stronger opposition when you know where you want to go» he added, explaining his plan for the next day to SYRIZA.

When asked if the elections are won in the center, he said that he agrees with what Alexis Tsipras had said, that elections are won at the center, but not from the center: “Let me be proud of the ideas of the Left that can provide solutions. With a change in the production and consumption pattern, these are left-wing ideas, as Alexis said.”

And he went on to say: “You have to have your own ideas and values ​​and turn them into policies that touch the world.”

Regarding the way of electing the president, he said that “well friends don’t vote, the procedure is the same as the election of Alexis Tsipras and it is good that way”.

He added that anyone who wants can register as a member of the party on the same day by paying the two euros.

To a question what role has Alexis Tsipras played in the intra-party pre-election period he replied that he had kept his promise to be neutral and that he would show no preference, and for that reason he would not be at tomorrow’s conference either.

Asked what he thinks about private universities, he replied: “We must support public universities, some areas must be protected from market relations and from competition. It is a community that consults and entrepreneurs should not enter, other values ​​emerge there. There must be spaces in life where we can see the different.”

Commenting that he attended good universities, he replied that those universities weren’t going to come here anyway, but added that the main thing is that private universities do not become an alibi for not investing in public ones

“Let’s not discredit them like the Mitsotakis government is doing” he said.

“And SYRIZA is doing many good things and the new leadership of SYRIZA must multiply these good things and reduce the bad ones to zero” he said.

He also noted that he is in favor of the developmental state with transparency stressing that “the role of the state is returning everywhere”.

“Problems like rural desertification cannot be tackled without a developmental state” he said.

Regarding the possibility of a debate between the candidates, he said that “the world of the Left wants a meaningful debate. It is not possible to explain my position in the one minute it takes to answer a debate.”

Regarding the candidacy, Kasselakis said that based on the party’s constitution – a provision he did not vote for – anyone who wants to can be a candidate.

“Mr. Kasselakis has some ideas with which I also agree, but I don’t know if he knows the problems in depth. He does not know the party, he has not been involved with the procedures. He is not even a member of parliament which is a problem” he said.

When asked if there is a favorite in the race, he replied that there is if no one knows the base, how many and who will vote, predictions are difficult.

“SYRIZA is looking for the leader who will beat Mitsotakis with an agenda that will change society, labor relations, health, culturethat’s what we’re looking for. Obviously, I want to be prime minister. I want power. But we don’t want discounts on our ideology. Certainly with this ideology we can win elections. Leftist ideology is looking to expand the boundaries of what is possible, we don’t want to be a managing force.” concluded.