Severe attack on the members of the Central Committee who voted for his exclusion Stefanou Kasselakis from presidential candidate to SYRIZA launched on Monday morning the Theodora Tzakri, saying that they “turned one of the leading collective bodies into an individual trade union body. All this will be “swept” by the conference, so coal is the treasure. All this degrades SYRIZA, Adonis Georgiadis also caught us in his mouth, what a shame”.

As he told ANT1, “the Central Committee is not the Vatican, its members are not cardinals and they are not infallible. They made a recommendation to the Congress, which is our highest body and takes the decisions. At some point the Conference will take place. The only competent to declare candidates, based on our constitution, is the Congress. The party base is with us, no matter what measures they take, no matter what they try to cook… there is no way that the Congress will ratify the decision of the EC, there is no way that Stefanos Kasselakis will not be a candidate”.

She asserted that “Stefanos Kasselakis will win the elections in SYRIZA from the first round because he is the favorite and they know it. We have the majority and indeed an overwhelming majority in the delegates. With all that they do, they persevere the base and are our “golden sponsors”.

In this context, he recalled that “they tried to write him off, the attempt fell in vain. These are midsummer night’s dreams of our opponents. He’ll go to the convention, be properly nominated by the conventioneers, and win in the first round, because he’s the favorite and they know it. When the Congress speaks, we will see each other.”

According to her, “according to the road map that has been voted, elections cannot be held if the Congress does not take place”, adding that the Kasselakis side was informed the day before yesterday that the venue has been found and the SYRIZA congress will be held in Gazi.

Regarding Pavlos Polakis, Mrs. Tzakri expressed her regret “that Mr. Polakis and his people participated in this, that he did not come himself, but sent them so that there would be a quorum in the Central Committee, I will not forget that”.

Acceptingly, she commented “other decisions may be made, for example expatriates or those who go to the gym”, while regarding the possibility of sanctions against her by the Central Committee she said:

“I have always had the same attitude, Nikos Pappas must explain why he changed his attitude and no longer supports Stefanos Kasselakis. I always speak politically and never personally”.

“The Central Committee can neither delete nor declare candidates. He will not form another party, Kasselakis will claim the leadership of SYRIZA. Some are comfortable with the anomaly in SYRIZA. Within a month there has been a second criticism against him for his candidacy. Have these ever happened before? What is not normal in SYRIZA is to challenge a president elected less than a year after his election.”

Asked, finally, why Stefanos Kasselakis is still the president of SYRIZA, Mrs. Tzakri replied that “on the day of the censure vote, Stefanos Kasselakis did not step down from his position as President so that there would be no vacancy in the leadership of the party, according to the opinion reputable jurists such as Mr. Kontiadis. In order not to stretch the rope, he left his office and his colleagues resigned and said “it’s okay, I’ll save it later”.