In his first evaluation of the results of the conference, the president of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, proceeded with clear points against Alexis Tsipras, emphasizing at the same time that he came out strengthened by the process.

“The conference acted exactly as it was supposed to act,” said the president of SYRIZA PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, in an interview with ERT’s detailed news bulletin and journalist Giorgos Kouvaras, claiming that “I have obviously come out strengthened.”

“You saw an entire stadium that was really sitting saying ‘hands off Kasselakis’. There is no question of dispute, there is a clear mandate to proceed with the structural changes that the party needs,” he stressed. He added that “SYRIZA must transform, complete its transformation, which Alexis Tsipras had started years ago, and become a great progressive alliance that will unite the whole world of the center-left and win over the right of Kyriakos Mitsotakis” .

Mr. Kasselakis stated that “the dominant assessment is the assessment of the members, who had representatives in Tae Kwo Do and who gave a very big signal that ‘it’s enough Stefanos is our president'”. He added that “in fact, the decision that was passed said exactly that, that under the leadership of the president we will go to the electoral contests, starting with the European elections, so there is no question of questioning and in fact we have a clear mandate to make the radical changes that have to be done in SYRIZA”.

“Clearly. The stadium said it clearly”, he answered the question if he thinks he has received an order to go to the next elections and not only to the European elections.

Asked about this, he said that Alexis Tsipras had not informed them and that “the manager of his office took the manager of my office a minute before Alexis posted on Facebook”. “I respect the initiative of the former president. I think it was a mistake for him not to appear at the conference, we are talking about thousands of members who have sweated the jersey for the party who would very much like to hear from him in person,” he commented. He said that “beyond that you can ask Alexis himself what he thinks and what he wants to do from now on. However, I’m not going to stop. I think there has been a clear mandate for Syriza to start a new cycle under my leadership and that’s what I will do.”