“What has been in question for 25 days is not the leadership of Stefanos Kasselakis. The very process of electing a president from the grassroots is being questioned. This is precisely what is being questioned by certain circles – if I may say so – and by those who have accustomed themselves to the role of owner of SYRIZA“said the press representative of SYRIZA-PS Dora Avgeri to talk radio, declaring that “SYRIZA has no owners. He belongs to his world, to his base, and this base – not even a month has passed – has decided to have a new political leadership.”

“Those who did not understand why we have a new president in SYRIZA-PS they apparently did not even understand what was the cause of the defeat to a large extent“, he said and commented that “undermining is nothing new”. “What’s new is the way the undermining is handled. “The undermining of the party and the hope of the Greeks to have a different proposal for change will not pass,” he stressed.

Answering a question about what was written about the report of St. Kasselakis that he has changed since he was 24 years old, said that “Stefanos Kasselakis basically said that people change and the good thing is that they change for the better. His case is a positive example of this change I think: to be a person who at 19 has different information, you’ve grown up away from your home country with a one-sided intake of news about a country that was presented as a country of convenient civil servants and so on, and to come to 35 and become better, accepting in essence, what Alexis Tsipras was saying from 2015-2019 – despite the fact that even then he was undermined”.