The decision of the president, Stefanos Kasselakis, to put questions in the form of a questionnaire to the friends and members of the party ahead of a conference brought turmoil to SYRIZA.

“Five days before the congress, identity issues are selected and asked, in the form of a poll questionnaire,” emphasizes Olga Gerovassili in her announcement, who calls for an extraordinary convening of the party’s governing bodies, i.e. the Political Secretariat and the Central Committee, before the congress “de facto developed into a congress to dissolve the party that Alexis Tsipras brought to govern the country and which he handed over to his successor in the position of official opposition”.

The Gerovasilis statement on Facebook

“I was very surprised to read on the #iSYRIZA website the initiative of President Stefanos Kasselakis to ask the opinion of the party members on issues related to the structure, name, logo, as well as the political identity of #SYRIZA_Σ

Five days before the congress, identifying issues are selected and asked, in the form of a poll questionnaire, which constitute congressional decisions and statutory positions of our party. Key, critical and important issues are not raised in the public sphere since they have not been raised neither in the positions, nor in the public, nor in the intra-party dialogue of the party members.

I would expect, therefore, from the President, before asking on the electronic platform these identity questions about our party to our members, to tell us exactly what he is proposing, that is, what is his own position on the above.

The minimum I am obliged to do after all this, is to immediately request the extraordinary convening of the leading organs of the party, i.e. the Political Secretariat and the Central Committee, before the convening of the Congress. That is, before this de facto developed into a conference to dissolve the party that Alexis Tsipras brought to govern the country and which he handed over to his successor in the position of official opposition”.