“The leadership of SYRIZA does not want any executive to leave, nor of course is any executive looking to leave,” the party’s press representative pointed out, among other things, Voula Kehagia to , invited to comment on the new crisis in Koumoundourou after the episode of Stefanos Kasselakis with Olga Gerovasilis and 7 others.

“It doesn’t change the fact that Stefanos Kasselakis is a unionist, in every party it is reasonable to have disagreements,” initially stated Mrs. Kehagia, adding:

“In essence, the purpose of the meeting of the Political Secretariat was to approve some dates for when the Central Committee will be formed and to assign some roles to the members who will participate in this body.”

Afterwards, the SYRIZA spokeswoman spoke about the Centre-Left’s scenarios of co-operation with PASOK, stressing that SYRIZA does not redefine itself. “I can’t say that Mr. Androulakis ignored Mr. Kasselakis, so we consider this a good step. What we are looking at is at the parliamentary level to be able to at least reach an agreement, in order to put pressure on the government.”

Finally, regarding Kasos and the Turkish warships deployed in the area, she expressed her concern about Turkey’s rhetoric, especially given the Turkish president’s reference to a Turkish minority in Thrace.