Nikos Pappas takes over the representation of SYRIZA in 88th TEF.

Since the motion of censure passed, Stefanos Kasselakis is no longer president of SYRIZA. According to information, the motion of censure against Mr. Kasselakis passed with 163 “yes”, 120 voted against while 2 blanks and 1 invalid were found.

Based on the SYRIZA statute, the next step is to appeal to extraordinary conference (probably at the end of September) in which the presidential nominations will be announced. Pavlos Polakis is a presidential candidate, as he announced on Saturday.

Immediately (tomorrow Monday or the day after tomorrow) the Political Secretariat will meet. With the recommendation of the Political Secretariat, a meeting of the Central Committee will be held in 2 weeks, where the declaration of the extraordinary conference will be decided. The nominations will be announced there, but there will also be a political discussion.

Everything will be done based on the statute.

“SYRIZA is a party with deep roots in society. A statute which is our Constitution. We are sure that the rest of the procedures will be carried out with absolute smoothness. I open the process. The EC decided almost unanimously to reconvene in two weeks from now. We are sending a message of calm, a message of democratic dialogue to the entire progressive world. In the world that was hurt by the latest developments,” Mr. Pappas emphasized. Asked if he will be a candidate, he replied that he will not open such a conversation now. “I will represent the party in TIF” he said.

“My decisions will be announced – I will always belong to the world of SYRIZA”

Stefanos Kasselakis pointed out the fact that he will announce his decisions on the sidelines of the vote of censure by his faction, immediately after the announcement of the results.

He emphasized that he will always belong to the world of SYRIZA, while he declared that he was redeemed because all the citizens saw the censure he has suffered since the first day he was elected president.

“It is unprecedented that the party bureaucracy does not accept the vote of the party members. That’s how I spent a whole year,” he said.

In fact, leaving the meeting, he spoke of humiliating the Central Committee “by wearing a hood”

The process continues with all members of the KE in the room.

“If Mr. Kasselakis wants, of course he can be a candidate”

“I declared my availability for the next day, I expressed an overall programmatic framework that can form the core with the aim of overthrowing in a short period of time the neoliberal government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis,” said Pavlos Polakis according to ERT.

We must proceed in a concerted and apparently unifying manner, without extreme expressions, and arrive at the programmatic framework, noted Mr. Polakis.

If Mr. Kasselakis wants to, of course, and he can be a candidate, he answered a related question.

“Had a hard time”

“A democratic process for SYRIZA was closed, which we tried to avoid in order not to create a division”, noted Sokratis Famellos after the Central Committee meeting, stressing that at the same time this process “proved that the members of the Central Committee want a new political proposal, which gives a way out and perspective to SYRIZA”.

He admitted that there is “shrinkage” and “obsolescence” in the world, however, he made it clear that “the next day finds us united in SYRIZA” and that everyone agrees that SYRIZA should be “the pillar and the space that will give the most ideas and forces for a progressive counterattack”. “It has been a difficult time, there is no mark on SYRIZA, unfortunately Stefanos Kasselakis chose something like this, we tried to avoid it, but there are no dead ends,” he said. Asked if he will be the same candidate, he said that today it was decided “by the public, the collective” and declared “soldier”.

“We won today, we will win in the final goal”

Christos Spirtzis said today the discredit and degeneration of SYRIZA, which in practice supported Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was confronted. SYRIZA is here to continue this effort. We won today, we will win in the final goal.