Nikos Filis launched an all-out attack on Stefanos Kasselakis, after the SYRIZA president’s post referring him to the Ethics Committee with the question of deletion.

Mr. Filis noted that “what Mr. Kasselakis supports is not the Left, but Mitsotakis”, while he noted that the president of SYRIZA did not receive an order to dissolve the party. He denounced that “Mr. Kasselakis is on a mission to dissolve SYRIZA by extra-political factors”.

Initially, responding to a question as to whether he is now a member of SYRIZA after Mr. Kasselakis’ post yesterday, Mr. Filis answered in the affirmative, saying that the relevant bodies should decide on his deletion:

“My status cannot be taken away by Mr. Kasselakis, alas. There are procedures, statutes. (…) What has been happening recently is causing a further degeneration and ridicule of the party. I hear from many people “I am ashamed to say what is happening with SYRIZA”. A party that has offered and can offer to society is headed for dissolution. It is unfortunate that this role was taken by Mr. Kasselakis, a person unknown to the public and only a month member of the party. He should respect the statute because he did not come out as president in a blank slate, he came out with a conference that had decisions and we proceed with them. And with a statute that establishes operating conditions”.

Escalating his fire, Mr. Filis noted: “To ‘fire’ as if we are a multinational, as if he is a CEO, via Twitter, this is not a party function. (…) The Political Secretariat should discuss whether we should be referred to the Ethics Committee, the Committee will decide with a 2/3 majority and then the matter will come back to the PG and the Central Committee. Andreas had formed a personal party, Mr. Kasselakis had not. There will be a serious reaction and that is why we are asking for a Political Secretariat. The issues must be discussed in the institutions.”

“Mutation Selection”

Mr. Filis emphasized that Mr. Kasselakis made a “choice to mutate, to shift SYRIZA to other political arenas”, and continued:

“The people have decided that a new person will emerge in the leadership of the party. Here we have a political organization of the Left that Mr. Kasselakis did not get an order to dissolve, but that is where we are headed. He does it because these are his views. Because he cheated those who voted for him. Because if someone were to read what Mr. Kasselakis said years ago, that he was asking for a reduction in wages, more layoffs from the State, private universities. (…) Is it possible to say that capital addresses inequalities? (…) This does not concern any kind of left, this is Mitsotakis!”.

“He is proceeding alone in a mutation of SYRIZA and departure from the Left. Mr. and Mrs. Kasselakis and Mitsotakis. He campaigned for it, I don’t want to talk about Trojan horses, I’m talking about a man with other views, he found the door open and took over SYRIZA. The statute was problematic, it allowed a person who has been a member for 1 month to be a candidate. It was a choice made by Tsipras. It was Tsipras’s fault,” he also said.