Sokratis Famellos officially submitted his candidacy for the presidency of the SYRIZA PS, accompanying it with 117 signatures of members of the KE.

“In accordance with the decisions of the SYRIZA-PS bodies and our statutory provisions, I submitted my candidacy with a complete file for the position of SYRIZA-PS president a little while ago. My candidacy has the candidacy approval of 117 comrades and comrades members of the Central Committee. I want to thank each and every one of them warmly and I believe that my candidacy will have the possibility of being supported by many more comrades and especially from the SYRIZA party base. I consider all the signatures to have the same importance, value and weight because the next day of SYRIZA must be unifying and my candidacy and submission today proves that there can be unity and is also a response to the toxicity, oppositions and attacks that has been accepted by the party in the last few days,” said Mr. Famellos leaving the party’s headquarters in Koumoundourou.

He added that “we must rebuild SYRIZA together and we must to guarantee unity together”, inviting a rich pre-conference dialogue. “The stake is not the position of the president, the stake is the existence of SYRIZA and my candidacy is a guarantee that there will be another day of SYRIZA and SYRIZA will be democratic, dynamic, reliable and serious.” He invited everyone to participate in the pre-conference process, “to ensure that there will be a better day for all of Greece and that is why my proposal is addressed to all citizens of the country».

Mr. Famous he answered in principle that “it is unacceptable and unthinkable to send an extrajudicial inquiry to the KE and I consider it unthinkable that a potential candidate for president is taking legal action against the party whose presidency he wants to claim». He said that he is completely satisfied by yesterday’s decision of the General Court and the return of the extrajudicial as inadmissible. “It is obvious that in the perspective and the necessity of the unity and efficiency, of the seriousness of SYRIZA I am willing to contribute in any way so that there is a restoration of this stigma, because as for the retsini of the entanglement I clearly answered that it is returned to the former president».

Asked about the initiative announced earlier by Pavlos Polakis for a meeting tomorrow of the presidential candidates, Mr. Famellos added that he informed the secretary of the KE “that apparently in consultation with the party organs I can participate in any meeting that will provide solutions”. “This should be done within the family. I believe that the organs of the party must function democratically and we must respect them, that is where we start, with the rules of our common existence and it is very obvious that I will contribute to the restoration of this negative climate as well. Why we need to talk about a perspective and my candidacy is aimed at that to have a perspective, the possibility of a better SYRIZA“, he said.