From the 1st to the 3rd of November, the extraordinary congress of SYRIZA will be held.

The road map for the extraordinary congress and the election of president and Central Committee decided at the meeting of the Central Committee last Saturday, is reflected in detail in the decision of the Body that was made public today.

As SYRIZA states in its statement:

After the democratically adopted and based on the party’s Statute decisions of the previous General Assembly, SYRIZA-PS proceeds to an Extraordinary Congress, election of president and Central Committee, according to the following schedule:

· The Extraordinary Congress will be held from November 1st to 3rd.

The object of the conference is the approval of the nominations and the text of the political decision.

  • The election of congressmen will be held on October 19 and 20, with the measure that applied at the February congress, that is, 1/40 of the registered members. The members of the K.E., the deputies and MEPs who are not members of the K.E., the members of the K.S. of Youth, the members of the selection committee and the ethics committee participate ex officio as representatives.
  • The election of the president and Central Committee will be held on Sunday, November 24 and, if a second round is needed for the presidential election, it will take place on Sunday, December 1.
  • The nomination for the presidency of the party is carried out in accordance with the principles and values ​​of SYRIZA-PS, the provisions of the statute and the decisions of its collective bodies.

To submit a nomination, signatures from 30 members of the Central Committee are required, which will be submitted to the Political Secretariat by October 24. Members of the Central Committee can sign for more than one candidate.

Transparency, truth, honesty towards every citizen is a valuable principle of our party. Today, after the traumatic picture of reports and insinuations of black funds, and leaks of targeting comrades, there is an urgent need to prove in deeds and not in words that neither our party nor our cadres have anything to hide. In this context, the candidate presidents of the party will submit with their candidacy, the “No Matters” that they have submitted to the competent authorities, so that they will be published on the website of SYRIZA – PS, before their announcement by the Congress.

  • K.E. will meet again on October 5, with the subject of the pre-conference texts.
  • The process of the pre-conference dialogue in the organizations will start on October 6.
  • The deadline within which someone must have become a member in order to have the right to vote in the pre-conference proceedings and the right to elect and be elected in the elections for the nomination of representatives and the election of the Executive Committee is 11/10/2024.

SYRIZA-PS invites its members and friends to actively participate and contribute with all their strength, for the unity and strengthening of the party. For a militant and modern SYRIZA-PS, at the vanguard of social developments and at the forefront of social struggles, which will lead a great progressive electoral alliance. With meritocracy, with dynamism, and with an even greater root in society. Which will appeal to all citizens, from the modern left to the progressive center. It will design and implement positions and proposals capable of inspiring the large social majority, it will fight for a better and fairer society, with a progressive, modern, reliable and realistic government program, for today and tomorrow of society and the country .

Also, the importance of the regional organization and the related discussion at the Conference was confirmed.

K.E. decided to strengthen the economic committee of the party and its new composition is as follows: Alexiadis Tryfonas, Kasimati Nina, Melachrinos Panagiotis, Poulos Giotas, Soapona Anastasia, Skoufas Vangelis, Tsirigoti Zacharoula, Chalazonitis Dimitris, Christidou Rallia