By Antonis Anzoletou

Five days before the polls open again for SYRIZA. the staffs of Stefanos Kaselakis and Efi Ahtsioglou play all their cards in the battle for the presidency.

Debate in the first round did not take place and it is not certain that it will take place in this one either, but it is a possibility that the former Minister of Labor’s staff sees positively.

Stefanos Kasselakis is currently in Trikala and Karditsa and is expected to tour throughout the week. So it seems that it will not be easy to find a common date and this may be another point of contention.

The nine points of the difference between the first two does not allow for sloppiness and the chances of being able to change the result depends on very specific factors.

First of all, from the attendance at the ballot box of the approximately 30,000 members who did not go to vote on the first Sunday.

They are still present in the party’s registers and should have expressed their intention to participate by Wednesday in order for the relevant control to be carried out. How easy is it to “get off the couch” and go to the polls? Not at all, but they can still change the balance.

Second and key element is how the “three” who are now out of the fight will behave. Euclid Tsakalotos showed with his statement on Sunday night that he is close to Efi Ahtsioglou, the same applies to the executives of “Ombrela”. He finished third with 8.93% receiving 13,156 votes.

With his percentage, Efi Ahtsioglou reaches 45.11% and narrowly surpasses Stefanos Kasselakis. However, it is considered almost certain that the largest part of Nikos Pappas’s crosses (12,787) will be directed towards Stefanos Kasselakis since their agendas are quite close and have to do with the opening towards the center. The 1,917 votes of Stefanos Tzoumakas are also not left out of the equation. During the pre-election period, he had attacked Mr. Kasselakis, while yesterday he also made a statement with many sharp points.

“SYRIZA PS will continue to have a crisis of leadership, a crisis of political aspirations and a crisis of political unity and credibility because, among other things, a deeply conservative current of punitiveness and naive expectations as well as manipulative fantasies to clear up internal contradictions has recovered today, as a continuation of triviality and of decline in the progressive movement”, he said characteristically.

Traditionally in party elections the second round does not attract the same interest as the first, as many consider the result to be a foregone conclusion. This fact always favors the one who precedes. This also happened in the 2021 elections in PASOK where approximately 70,000 fewer friends and members of the party had voted.