Onslaught to the Ahtsioglou team for its departure from SYRIZA the Political Secretariat of the party releases with its announcement, making a speech for “a long-foreshadowed split.”

“What anyone can conclude is that the only disagreement of those who are leaving the party today, it is the disagreement with the will of the base. Their refusal to accept the result of the internal party elections, i.e. the choice of the tens of thousands of SYRIZA-PS members who democratically elected Stefanos Kasselakis as party president. This is a clearly anti-democratic attitude, which started already the day after the electionsn” is emphasized.

“We won’t do the favor neither to those who dream of a left-wing parenthesis, nor to those who strike for the restoration of a pseudo-bipartisanship, with the cooperation of various “prothyms”, it is characteristically mentioned.

The announcement of the Political Secretariat

“Today’s split is unfortunately not a surprise. It was long foretold.

However, it is an unprecedented event, since all those who chose the path of withdrawal, did not do so in a party process or in a party organ. Nor did they base their decision on any specific political disagreement.

What anyone can conclude, is that the only disagreement of those who leave the party today, is the disagreement with the will of the base. Their refusal to accept the result of the internal party elections, i.e. the choice of the tens of thousands of SYRIZA-PS members who democratically elected Stefanos Kasselakis as party president. This is a clearly anti-democratic attitude, which started already the day after the elections.

However, they also violated the dual mandate of leftist, progressive citizens, as expressed in the recent parliamentary elections.

The mandate to reconstitute SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, to once again become the voice of the expectations and hopes of the great majority of the Greek people, to become even more rooted in society, to listen to the citizens, to once again become the governing left.

But also the order to SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, to exercise the duties of the official opposition. The Greek people decided that the 47 MPs of the party, who were elected in the July elections, would be a barrier to the anti-popular and anti-social plans of the Mitsotakis government. To propose socially just solutions and to give specific and comprehensive answers to the major problems of Greek society. To be precise, unemployment, job insecurity, the housing issue, the dissolution of the welfare state, the discrediting of public structures and infrastructure, the attack against the rule of law.

This is exactly what SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance will do. With even greater determination and stubbornness, with even greater faith in the values ​​and ideals of the progressive world.

We will do no favors either to those who dream of a left-wing bracket, or to those who are on strike to restore a pseudo-bipartisanship, with the cooperation of various “wannabes”.

We are addressing the progressive and leftist world, the hundreds of thousands of SYRIZA-PS voters, who trusted us and supported us in the recent elections, but also to those who expect us, for a progressive perspective for the country.

We are here, moving forward, even stronger and renewed, keeping the legacy of Alexis Tsipras alive. With rallying, unity, dynamic restart, together with society and the new generation.

On the side of the Greek people, in the struggles for a fair society, for a modern, progressive Greece, as we deserve”.