Extremely caustic for the president of SYRIZA – PS Stefanos Kasselakis appeared in an interview o former minister Christos Spirtzis calling on him to “get down to earth” on the questionnaire about the possibility of changing the name, logo and structures through iSyriza, which he said he was not going to fill out.

Speaking to ERTNEWS, Mr. Spirtzis stated that Mr. Kasselakis is obviously not informed because many of the issues he raises have already been resolved.

“It is unacceptable that the President has not submitted his positions on these issues to the party bodies. I find it unacceptable that he is putting out a questionnaire. We don’t measure. We are an organized party with a very specific direction. A party that did not hold a congress when it had a strategic defeat, in my opinion, and the president, Alexis Tsipras, resigned and went to a political process to elect a president. Therefore, we have to see what has gone wrong” said Mr. Spirtzis.

It has to land in reality

Asked if he agrees with Olga Gerovasilis who is requesting an extraordinary convocation of the Political Secretariat for the questionnaire, he answered in the affirmative. “SYRIZA obviously has to make very big changes, but not in the direction of the questionnaire, in the direction of regaining the seriousness it has lost in the last months and regaining its credibility,” added the former minister.

He estimated that Mr. Kasselakis “should propose a conference not of positions, but of a statute”. And as he said “what he seeks is to remove from himself the responsibility and the organizational chaos that has been caused in SYRIZA” talking about the collapse of the party.

He emphasized, in fact, that “Stefanos Kaselakis is not alone. It has to land in reality.” In fact, as he argued with this tactic “Mr. Kasselakis narrows the limit of SYRIZA. He wants to be either left or centre-left.” He described these things as not serious, calling on the party president to convene the party’s organs.

“Stefanos Kaselakis, after this initiative, must convene the party’s governing bodies, that is, the Political Secretariat and the Central Committee, on his own. […] He must first formulate his positions, which he has not formulated anywhere.”