“With a sense of responsibility and respect for the collective decisions of our bodies”, as he stated, Nikolas Farandouris submitted his candidacy for the presidency of the SYRIZA PS to the Central Committee, accompanied by 34 signatures of the members of the Central Committee and his retinue.

Mr. Farandouris presented a rough outline of a 10-point program that is also his political proposal, from demographics to the operation of the market and from labor and collective labor contracts to contemporary challenges in the international and European arena.

“Unity, restraint and, above all, a sense of responsibility towards a historical faction of sacrifice and contribution must prevail.”

“There is no one left, the phenomena of division but also an excessive ego that prevailed in the previous period do not characterize our faction and my speech and my presence came to unite and not to divide, to unite and not to divide” .

Asked if acceptance of the censure decision is a condition for any nomination, he said that he submitted his nomination “with a sense of responsibility, in accordance with the collective decisions of the institutions”. He added that “an organized party and indeed a party of the left, has a tripartite of members, organs, leadership” and that “all three must coordinate and cooperate”. “Parties have bodies, they decide collectively, they have members who participate, they also have leaders who decide and leave their mark. The parties are not servants of their presidents, the parties must in this triptych move forward harmoniously and with a companionable mood – more likely in a party of the left. This is also my vision for SYRIZA, starting with the regional reconstruction of our party,” he said.

He added that “if unity and solidarity prevail and the ego recedes a little against the we and we realize that we have a historical obligation towards society to come forward and lead the progressive democratic forces of the country – because this is what the people are asking for – and to form the other governmental pole, the alternative for local governance, we can achieve it”. “Otherwise,” he noted, “we will shrink and disappear.” “But I am here, like my other co-candidates, to serve this vision, of governance, of unity and not of division.

SYRIZA ahead, to lead the progressive democratic forces of the country. This must absolutely be his mission,” he said finally.