“As a member of SYRIZA, I find it unthinkable that someone who has made an extradition to the party should be a candidate for president,” said Sokratis Famellos, speaking to ANT1.

“I can’t justify it, I’ve asked for the extrajudicial to be withdrawn. Is it me or SYRIZA’s fault because the former president is talking about collusion, or hoodlums?”, commented the SYRIZA presidential candidate, adding that he has “clearly called for the defeat of the former president’s possible candidacy because it harms the party and society ».

Mr. Famellos argued that “the charge of involvement heard in the video must be immediately withdrawn, the extrajudicial trial must be immediately withdrawn and the violation – by placing him as “president of SYRIZA” – of the bodies’ decisions must be restored”.

Speaking about his candidacy, he said that SYRIZA can be a party with a single voice. He commented that “the last period up to the removal of confidence was characterized by the former president by mistakes that were both inside the party and outside”. He added that “SYRIZA constantly followed wrong choices to the detriment of both the party and society due to the personal choices of the former president”. “I couldn’t keep quiet,” he said. “SYRIZA must exist in Greek society. Unfortunately, the former president’s choices were destroying this SYRIZA, which society needs,” he stressed.

“Is it SYRIZA’s fault because the former president made an extradition case against SYRIZA?” Should the members of the Central Committee apologize?” he said. He said that “the credentials of the presidential candidates were given to be made public, and I think they were well submitted to SYRIZA because we have nothing to hide.”

“The hoods, the extrajudicial, the entanglement…. I hear a entanglement in SYRIZA. We fight entanglement. Is there a person who, having made so many mistakes, can become the president of the official opposition and we can trust him with the course of the country?”, he said. He noted that “SYRIZA must change the page, the previous period was disastrous. It has nothing to do with the values ​​of SYRIZA but neither with this SYRIZA that the citizens need” and that his own candidacy ensures” and that we will be united and united”.