Public and open proposal for joint venture SYRIZA and PASOK the SYRIZA MP addressed the national elections on Monday morning, Nikos Pappas, through a televised interview on OPEN.

Specifically, Mr. Pappas underlined that there should be a programmatic discussion between PASOK and SYRIZA defining the electoral process, so that they go to the elections with a common candidate for prime minister and a common ballot.

He proposed a common ballot on the basis of program convergences, with a common candidate for prime minister. “There is a way to have a combination that would fall within the provisions of the law,” he pointed out.

“Association of parties according to the law. We do not recommend self-dissolution and a single entity. But there is a need for electoral cooperation. E.g. in France what happened: parties with a very long history, such as the communist party, the socialist party, the Mélenchon party and the Greens, locked themselves in a room for four days and came out with an agreement on the candidates and the program,” the deputy pointed out of SYRIZA.

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“There are two major political formations, SYRIZA and PASOK, which can trigger the developments. If these two areas do not make the decision to sit at the table, there is no political event.”

In this possible cooperation, SYRIZA and PASOK can mainly participate and he estimated that it is rather unlikely that the Freedom Movement would participate in such a cooperation, while for the New Left he spoke of “stolen seats and a bad precedent”.

“It’s another thing to say that two parties are abolished and they become one and another, an electoral tactic that responds to a major issue, which for us is the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Given the electoral law and because we do not have electoral tactics, there is no other method than electoral cooperation. And as Stefanos Kasselakis said, the final judge of everything must be the base of the progressive left”, he stressed.