By Antonis Anzoletou

Today’s meeting of the SYRIZA parliamentary group may officially be held for the start of the political year and the planning of the parliamentary work, however with the developments in the party running every discussion held in the bodies also gives some additional signal for the future.

Stefanos Kasselakis will not be present and will either connect via zoom or send his suggestion.

The withdrawal of eight members belonging to the “87” movement from the meeting of the Political Secretariat set the tone of the existing moods, while Pavlos Polakis seems to remain on the hard line.

It will be interesting to see if the SYRIZA president today shows a willingness to tone down, unless his non-living presence causes new murmurs.

It is recalled that among the “87” of the internal party opposition there are also seven MPs.

Olga Gerovasili, Katerina Notopoulou, Dionysis Kalamatianos, Christos Giannoulis, Miltos Zambaras, Athina Linou and Andreas Panagiotopoulos will probably, depending on how the meeting develops, have the opportunity to express their objections.

Pavlos Polakis, as an independent MP, will not be present and everything shows that the “glass” with the president of SYRIZA has been broken.

Initiatives in the next period will be taken such as the new intervention text of 870 members of the party which is also signed by 34 members of the Central Committee.

They state that “we can no longer stand idly by, seeing certain executives and groups within our party who, in close cooperation with the party bureaucracy, are methodically gnawing away at both the President Mr. Stefanos Kasselakis and the very project of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, for which we have fought tremendously since 2012.

We can no longer tolerate the systematic circumvention of collective decisions by the organizational leadership (as recently with the decision of the KE on the time of establishment and composition of the KOES) whose sole aim is to brake (if not sabotage) democratic developments and changes in the party , against the moods of the vast majority of its members and friends”.

The official opposition has two crucial stations ahead of it that will determine a lot about the course of SYRIZA.

On Wednesday, Kostas Tasoulas is expected to contact Popi Tsapanidou in order to get her answer regarding Othona Iliopoulos’ seat.

The estimates have the former spokeswoman to be sworn in on Friday.

The executives who are close to Stefanos Kasselakis have already started to include Alexis Tsipras in the frame of developments.

Haris Mamoulakis, when asked on PARAPOLITIKA FM if the former prime minister could take some initiative on this issue, said that “he could take the initiative, although I repeat the seats have a name, so how much pressure can you put on a person if he stubbornly insists on keeping it ».

Petros Pappas reported to SKAI about the internal party opposition:

“From the first three months they followed the exhortation of Mr. Tsipras of the former leader to challenge the president in February and they continue to do so».

On September 3, the Ethics Committee will convene in order to decide whether to refer Christos Spirtzis for anti-party and substitute behavior with the question of deletion.

It is clear that something like this will be a casus belli for the “87” and will determine their next moves.

The former Minister of Transport he is expected in the next few days to send a letter to the Disciplinary Office denouncing methods against him.