“As a positive development because this unpleasant parenthesis was closed” characterized the removal of Stefanos Kasselakis from the leadership of SYRIZA, Yannis Ragousis, speaking to SKAI in the morning.

“The post-Kasselakis era for the progressive faction has begun,” he stressed, estimating that there is no going back and this can be seen from his reluctance to tell the people exactly what he will do.

“He has understood that if he runs again, he will not get even half the votes he got when he was elected,” he noted.

Asked to comment on the fact that for the first time a party president is deposed, Mr. Ragousis noted that it is a development foreseen by the statute while clarifying that the party will elect a new president from the base so that “members and friends can decide who will be the young and put an end to the drama we are living”.

Regarding the candidates and who he will support, he replied: “I will have a preference after seeing all the nominations” and added that the main criterion will be the candidate he chooses who has clearly stated that he is in favor of the reconstruction of the party with the aim of amalgamation of progressive forces.

For the role of Tsipras

To the question, what will Alexis Tsipras do, he noted that “he can do whatever he sees fit” while concluding that he rightly never responded to the slanderous complaints of Mr. Kasselakis because he would have stooped to his level”, adding that he is certain that Mr. Tsipras is “suffocated by justice”.