“It is time for a New, Modern and above all Big Center Leftin the sense of a great alliance of the Modern Left and Center Left, for the next Greece, not for the outgoing Greece”, he said in his speech in Central Committee of SYRIZA o Yannis Ragousis and added: “We must create this new center-left within SYRIZA PS, those who believe in it. And finally, this new center-left will either find room to breathe and grow within the SYRIZA PS or outside of it.

He referred to the European elections: “I am very sorry that I cannot agree with over-optimistic approaches that our path is fine and there is no need for reflection and redefinition. The defeat in the national elections was not a strategic defeat, because we retained the status of official opposition. Strategy but defeat will be a defeat in the European elections if we lose the 2nd place in society with very low percentages. It will be a defeat that will dramatically limit the prospects of revival of the government SYRIZA PS. When the ship is sailing full speed ahead towards the “iceberg” of the European elections, it doesn’t matter where you sit or what your role is. It is important to do everything you can now so that the ship changes course in time, before the “iceberg”. Then it will be too late.”

He then argued that “it is necessary to undo certain reasons-symbols because of which we lost thousands of moderate voters” and added: “And those who say today you must all work together … after the collision with the iceberg they will say ‘what did you do to prevent the bad; Why weren’t you talking before?’ We can avoid it. We can. Can we turn a game around in the second half? It’s hard, but we can if we change course.

Finally, he raised an “issue of special symbolic value” and requested that SYRIZA-PS vote on the defense expenditures of the budget.