“First of all, I would like to address the hundreds of thousands across the country who supported the ballots of the “People’s Rally” in today’s municipal and regional elections” said the head of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas and pointed out:

“The results of the elections confirm positive processes taking place just three months after the parliamentary elections, although the correlation is still very negative.

We can say that a stream of questioning of dominant politics, of its class character in favor of capitalist interests, is stabilizing and strengthening slowly but surely, a certain liberation of working-class forces from the various bourgeois parties is taking place, the prestige and confidence in the KKE is rising, the militant association with the KKE throughout the country.

This trend was expressed today with the “People’s Rally” ballots with the carnation in all 13 Regions of the country and in 262 Municipalities throughout Greece.

With the results so far, the percentage of the “People’s Rally”, nationwide, i.e. in the 13 Regions in total, is over 10% compared to the 6.86% that was in the previous regional elections of 2019 and the 7.69% that the KKE got in the last parliamentary elections in June.

Of particular importance is the percentage in the largest Region of the country, the Region of Attica, which stands at 14%.

We welcome the election, from the first round, of the “People’s Gathering” mayor again after years in Ikaria, on the red island. Separately, we welcome the very high percentage of the mayor of Patras, Kostas Peletidis, with over 41% despite the dirty war that, as we all know, he received from the other powers”.

“It is very important that for the first time after many years several combinations supported by the KKE will fight in the second round next Sunday, such as in Patras, Petroupoli, Kaisariani, Haidari, Nikaia-Ag. Ioannis Rentis, Tyrnavos and elsewhere, while in several other municipalities the candidates of the “People’s Gathering” collected very high double-digit percentages” said D. Koutsoumbas and added:

“Next Sunday, on the 15th of the month, we go and vote to complete the victory of all these “People’s Rally” combinations where they passed in the second round. Where the “People’s Rally” ballots are not in the second round, we call on the Greek people to send a message of condemnation, with a blank or void, of the parties and other combinations, whatever they are called, which of course move in the line of supporting the anti-popular policy of the government and they serve faithfully in the Municipalities and Regions as the long arm of the bourgeois state and the big business interests to ensure their profits and not, of course, to satisfy the needs of the people”.

Concluding his statements, D. Koutsoubas emphasized:

“We are fully aware that our responsibilities are growing to contribute more decisively, to the reconstruction, to the militancy, to the massiveness of the labor-popular movement, to the organization of the daily struggle of the workers to prevent worse measures from the ND government and from the consensus that it is provided by the other urban parties, but also by the anti-popular local administrations in Municipalities and Regions.

To be next to every popular problem, to claim the satisfaction of modern popular needs.

In this case, the KKE together with many more of our elected representatives in the Local Government and in the Regions in the municipal and regional councils, will give all our strength”.