Presidential elections on March 10 proposed by Stefanos Kasselakis in his presentation to the SYRIZA conference, rejecting the possibility of postponement.

The statement of the president of SYRIZA immediately after the announcement of the candidacy of Olga Gerovasilis:

“I welcome Olga Gerovasilis to a beautiful race. I promise, before all of you, that I will remain in the party, and I will work for the party, regardless of the result, regardless of the parliamentary chair. I promise that the day after the election, if I win, he will also invite the deputy speaker of the Parliament and her team to bring about the constitutional changes we need. Let everyone know that at the end of the day the truth will win and we must go to presidential elections as soon as possibleon March 10 and hybrids, for maximum participation. And obviously this is my suggestion to the Congress.”

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Forced to go to internal party elections in SYRIZA without postponement said the president of SYRIZA at noon, talking to delegates.

“Guys, the damage is done, and it’s not my fault” Mr. Kasselakis is reported to have mentioned to delegates who were asking for the postponement of the elections.

“Let everyone understand this well: On the Left, the subversives leaders are not elected. The morality of the world of the Left doesn’t allow it,” says the president of the party, in his post on Instagram.

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“If it’s not me against the new would-be subversives, it will be someone else. They will call him “skydiving“, but society will have brought him, as it brought me. Society brought me” writes Stefanos Kasselakis, simultaneously publishing a series of his photos.

According to information from SKAI, the President of SYRIZA-PS, entering the Congress arena, passed in front of the table where the signatures for the postponement of the elections were being collected.

Then the bystanders said to him: “President, will you sign?” and Mr. Kasselakis replied, according to information: “I’m sorry I can’t. I can’t be Iphigenia.”

Stefanos Kasselakis stated in his speech that “he is not president under a deadline and if an opponent is found, the leader will be elected again from the grassroots”, responding to the intervention of Alexis Tsipras shortly before the Congress began. However, even after the ferments of yesterday that brought Olga Gerovasilis as a possible opponent of Mr. Kasselakis, at the Congress a proposal tends to be formed by some executives according to which the election of the leader will have negative consequences for the unity of SYRIZA and should to be moved to after the European elections.

Sources close to Stefanos Kasselakis mentioned this proposal “the answer is: clean solutions” and they explained that this means appealing to the base of the party to clarify the landscape.

Her candidacy for the leadership of SYRIZA-PS was officially announced from the floor of the 4th Congress by Olga Gerovasili. We need seriousness and credibility, only communication without a political plan is not enough, emphasized Mrs. Gerobasili during her speech at the 4th Congress of SYRIZA.

I heard the president’s public invitation, I am present, I have never been afraid of responsibility. Not even in the most difficult ones. I always backed off. I am proud to have been a member of the government of Alexis Tsipras,” said Olga Gerovasili. “I am here to stop the downward spiral,” he said. Some delegates responded with boos at the announcement of her candidacy, with the SYRIZA president motioning for them to stop.

Him Stefanos Kasselakis supported earlier at the 4th Congress of SYRIZA o Nikos Pappasasking for the cancellation of the internal party elections and calling on Olga Gerovassili not to announce her candidacy for the party’s presidency.

“The moment is critical… ND multiplies the crisis they are living through. Will we also become multipliers? Or will we send a message of unity and fight? Will we heighten the tension or give a message of unity to rally and fight? We will consume 50 out of 100 days until the elections on our issues?” he wondered.

“I agree with what most people said – the speakers who conveyed the anxiety, not about how our internal relationships will be shaped, but about how the relationships will be shaped in society and politics,” said Nikos Pappas.