“In SYRIZA, we are forced to be optimistic out of despair, we have to look back at recent events, see what mistakes we made,” said SYRIZA MP Christos Giannoulis on Monday morning on the SKAI program ‘SIMERA’.

“Essential unity includes solidarity, it has emotion, there cannot be the logic of the loser and the winner,” he added.

“Some cannot accept that Stefanos Kasselakis was suddenly elected president. Question: should we all respect it as a party? Does anyone have the right to criticize the new leadership? Yes. Does he have the right to curse? No. To deconstruct? again no these are what led us here”, emphasized Mr. Giannoulis.

“Our next chance is a conference of self-purification and self-redemption”

“A crisis needs its time, I don’t beautify situations. I remind, as an example, leaving with three deputies that Fotis Kouvelis had left after a conference. So our next opportunity is a conference of self-purification and self-redemption, that’s where we need to get to,” he said.

“There are many who will not support any impulse in something that says ‘the state is me'”

“The handling of Mr. Kasselakis in the Central Committee was not correct, I said so on Saturday morning at the same time that the objections of very respected comrades about this decision were published, I do not know if it had a political content. Synthesis is not only for Chaclotos and Umbrella to remain. Problems have been created here by other people who have supported and will support the new leadership, however, they will not support any impulse in something that says ‘the state is me'”.

Regarding the president of SYRIZA, he clarified: “Mr. Kasselakis knows very well that the exercise of the right to lead and the blank check have a limit. He is not naive. I hope he means what he said that “I don’t have cycles”.

“I will not do the SYRIZA memorial, nor the funeral, we have very hard battles to fight. Instead of us being the news, we must produce the news”, Mr. Giannoulis added finally.