“I think it’s the end of the Left in Greece”, said on Monday Makis Voridis, for the newly elected president of SYRIZA Stefanos Kasselakis.

Answering a related question, the Minister of State, after expressing his respect for the choices of friends and members of SYRIZA, the citizens, all those who voted for Mr. Kasselakis, said:

“.. I also have specific opinions. I think it is the end of the Left in Greece. I mean, you know, this Left has a tradition that goes back a long way. For those of us who have a rudimentary, thus composed picture of what has happened and what its path is, this space was the split from the KKE Esoteriko of 1968, it was Eurocommunism, it was Berliguer, it was Communism with Democracy and not with dictatorship of the proletariat, was all this historical discussion, which highlighted great personalities, Leonidas Kyrkos, the entire historical path in the post-colonial period.

And all this ends today, in that a man, appeared to be on vacationhe ran for and won the leadership of SYRIZA, winning over all his historical executives, all his ministers, all his first-class executives.

So this to me is what..? is the logical continuation of strategic defeat, that the specific expression of the Left has suffered, since the elections and after.

The logical follow-up is so heavy the defeat suffered by the Government from 32 to 21, from 21 to 17, in the departure of Tsipras, in the nomination of all the first-class officials and finally in their defeat by Kasselakis, that essentially it proves that a certain perception, fortunately for our country, is on the way out. Now, how Kasselakis will do, of course, we will see, but I think, as a first conclusion, this can be recorded as a product of the choice made by the people of SYRIZA and those who went to vote. This, I think, is the conclusion, the political conclusion of these elections.”