A call to “every citizen, who believes in a better future, to come and build together our common home, the home of every progressive citizen, the great left progressive democratic faction, the faction that unites the world from the Left to the Center and will raise the country on its backs”, addressed Nikos Pappas from his meeting with members and friends of SYRIZA-PS in Pallini.

“We start from September 10. We are building the Victory Squad. We are building the future of democracy, justice and peace for Greece. A better country for everyone,” said the party’s presidential candidate. “We ask,” he added, “a mandate to conflict with interests and mechanisms of profiteering and the production of inequalities. Order to protect public wealth and public infrastructure and the welfare state. A mandate to defend the institutions against methods that injure democracy and question fundamental rights”.

Mr. Pappas argued that “in order to recover and win, there are clear political, programmatic and organizational conditions, to ensure political and social breadth, to exclude our programmatic denervation, to utilize and integrate the 110 thousand new members, among others ». He stressed that “what we need is real democracy in the members’ party, not a party of structures that will suppress, nullify and ignore the will of the members.” “We must complete this step and also take other steps to upgrade the functioning of a party of members,” he continued. In this context, he said: “To elect prefectural committees with universal participation of the members. Let’s elect new coordinators. To form networks in self-government, in trade unions, in the rural area, in small and medium-sized enterprises. To set up our regional organizations, which, among other things, would prepare the party for the regional elections. Let’s launch referendums. To compile our ballots with universal participation of members in the selection. Let’s finally take advantage of the social and political availability of ordinary fighters and representatives of organizations that came to help us”.

Mr. Pappas noted that SYRIZA “needs today a huge wave of democracy and participation that will essentially have re-establishing characteristics of the members’ party. A wave that will sweep away bad practices and closed doors. A leap of democracy”.

At the open debate in Pallini, the member of parliament Giorgos Karameros, the candidates for parliament Myrto Korovesi and Evangelos Antonaros, the former mayor of Saronikos and candidate for parliament Petros Filippou, the members of K.E. Zanet Tsipras, Leonidas Behrakis, Thodoris Gotsopoulos, Menelaos Givalos, Thanasis Oikonomou, Nikos Karatillion, Eleni Kavroudaki, Tasos Politidis, Sofia Laiou and Stelios Pappas, the regional councilors Zoi Varelis Stefanidis and Stelios Korovesis, the municipal councilor of Spata Philippos Argyros, the former director of ELTA advisor Yiannis Zaroliagis, the coordinator of N.E. Christos Petrakos, the coordinators of the O.M. Loutsas and Spatons, Spyros Diamantopoulos and Fotini Karabi, members of the NE, of the OM, of the party.