By Antonis Anzoletou

At the time when the postal vote is being discussed and voted on in the Parliament and society is dominated – apart from accuracy in the market – the bill for the civil marriage of same-sex couples in Koumoundourou continues the “own goals”.

The whole scene yesterday was reminiscent of February and March 2023. The whole country was in the throes of elections and SYRIZA had focused its attention on the deletion or not of Pavlos Polakis.

Last year, shortly before the beginning of spring, the suspension of the Chanio MP for journalists and judges had caused an “earthquake” and the party’s organs had gone to work. Finally, with a letter of apology to the Political Secretary of the party, the matter ended. According to many, however, in Koumoundourou the “damage” had already been done.

The Insults by Pavlos Polakis towards the cartoonist of “KATHIMERINIS”, Ilias Makris, came for another reason at the worst possible time. SYRIZA had just completed the Spetses process and successfully. The caucus met in a spirit of unity, a lot of good news came out, legislative proposals will be brought forward in the near future, but once again the spotlight turned elsewhere. Koumoundourou may have made the necessary phone call to the former health deputy, but he chose last night to continue his fight with Adonis Georgiadis in the same style. The “emptying” of Koumoundourou was preceded by the announcement of the party stating, among other things, that “nowhere do SYRIZA – PS express such reactions even if they come in response to offensive reports or descriptions of the press”.

SYRIZA has a big “uphill” to climb and there is no room for “falsa”. Things are not going well according to the polls, and if PASOK does not recover quickly, it will consolidate itself in second place. For Harilaou Trikoupi, after all, this is now a given and they are looking for “something more”.

At the same time, he runs the pre-conference dialogue with the first regional conferences in Thessaly and Western Macedonia. The first stop will be Kozani on February 4 and the second will be Larissa on the 10th of the following month.

In today’s meeting for the postal vote, which is expected to end in the afternoon, the SYRIZA parliamentary group will insist on the amendment it resubmitted. This is what he will try to highlight and not the introversion that plagues the party. It envisages the creation of four electoral regions (Europe, North, Central and South America, countries of Oceania – Far East and other countries), in order to allocate four state parliament seats for the representation of Greeks who are permanently settled abroad.