The next day in SYRIZA after the change of leadership 15 years later looks like a difficult balancing act for the newly elected president as well as for the party’s first-class and non-executives.

The processes in the foreground as well as in the background primarily concern the selection by the new president of the collaborators and executives who will assume the key roles for the institutional representation of the party.

Widespread, however, is the reflection in Koumoundourou about the outcome of the cohabitation in the next year Mras some executives foreshadow an upcoming rift scene that may even lead to a future split.

In his victory statement, Mr. Kasselakis, who wanted to demonstrate a unifying spirit and mood, declared the end of the pre-election high tension, saying characteristically that “among comrades, the first is first and the second is first”.

Two days later Ms. Ahtsioglou sent her own message as after the meeting she had with Mr. Kasselakis in the Parliament on Tuesday at noon she refused to assume any “front line” position.

Ms. Ahtsioglou he cited personal reasons although he stated after the hour-long meeting that “We met and exchanged some views. For my part, I naturally wished him good strength. He told me if I want any position he would be interested. I told him that at the current stage of my life I don’t have the ability to take on any position,” he said and clarified that he doesn’t have the energy to take on any other position other than the one corresponding to the deputy of the Athens sector. “It is purely a personal decision and it has to do with my own capabilities. I think a politician should know when he has the energy to give something more and when he doesn’t, and to say this boldly. I’m here, I’ll be here to discuss anything.”

It is recalled that Ms. Ahtsioglou, during the pre-election period, harshly criticized Mr. Kasselakis, accusing him of lacking positions and opinions.

The polarizing climate that prevails in SYRIZA is also reflected in the attack launched against the new leadership by Nikos Filis.

Referring to the new president, Nikos Filis emphasized that “it is the phenomenon of metapolitics, the spectacle and not the essence, something like Beppe Grillo in Italy or even worse I saw the speech, the delivery of the speech of Mr. Kasselakis and it has a Trump style, not substance, but a style similar to Trump’s, that “I don’t care what others say, it’s ‘me and the people'”.

Nikos Pappas, who supported Stefanos Kasselakis in the second round, hastened to answer Nikos Fili stating that “it is unfair both for the faction and for all the people who came and testified for the umpteenth time their faith and trust in the faction that the drums of war sound again” said Nikos Pappas

Reactions also strengthen the belligerent atmosphere of Messrs. Kalpakis and Theocharopoulos who, according to them, were informed by websites about their replacement and not officially by the party.

With their posts on social media, they hint at the fact that they were not officially informed by the party, but by the media, that both Stergios Kalpakis, who is being replaced by Dora Avgeri as the party’s press representative, and the Thanasis Theocharopoulos who is replaced by Giorgos Tsipras in the position of the director of the Parliamentary Group.

However, Sokratis Famellos responded positively to Mr. Kasselakis’ proposal to remain in the position of the president of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group, a position he also held during the pre-election period.

Mr. Kasselakis was even given a tour by Mr. Famellos in the premises of the Parliament and talked to MPs and parliamentary editors.

“We have a lot of work to do. SYRIZA will, from now on, produce political proposals and reforms, both as a party and as a Parliamentary Group, but above all as part of society. Society will be part of the solutions, because both the economy and society, and the future of the country, need it. Socrates (s.s. Famellos), Dionysis (s.s. Kalamatianos), are doing a titanic feat to be able to promote our positions and I think, from now on, they have a much larger group and society to support them and let us all succeed collectively”, said the president of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis.

The parliamentary editors welcomed the president of SYRIZA to the working room, informing him that he was visiting one of the hardest-working reports in the journalism industry, with the marathon meetings of the Parliament and their broadcasts, which often exceed 24 hours of continuous work.

At the same time, the successive meetings and meetings that Mr. Kasselakis had with party officials as well as close associates who supported his candidacy in the previous period resulted in the selection of Manolis Kapnisakis as director of the Political Office, while Dora Avgeri assumes the role of the party’s press representative and Giorgos Tsipras, acting director of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group.