By Antonis Anzoletou

Five days before the congressional elections that will decide who will have the upper hand in the top party process and 27 days before the SYRIZA congress, the thermometer is constantly rising.

The four official candidates (Sokratis Famellos, Pavlos Polakis, Nikolas Farandouris and Apostolos Gletsos) continue their pre-election campaign hoping for the best possible result.

Opposite them is the “unofficial” candidate, Stefanos Kasselakis, who constantly emphasizes wherever he stands and wherever he is that on November 24 at Gazi Live, his exclusion from the Central Committee will be overturned.

In SYRIZA, they have managed to achieve another first. Internal party elections have never been held in Greece where a candidate is not recognized by the others, has been “cut off” from the process and insists on attending.

There are many processes in the background as well.

There are still voices, mainly in the ranks of the “87” who believe that the conference should be postponed for some time in order to calm spirits.

This scenario, however, seems to be moving away as the days go by, as the reactions from the “camp” of Stefanos Kasselakis would be great and at the same time it would bring out a defeatism on the part of the new majority.

Tomorrow at noon the Political Secretariat meets and all the details will be laid out, as well as the way the pre-election campaign will take place. Koumoundourou’s conflict with the former president of SYRIZA will be fierce.

From Koumoundourou, they do not recognize his candidacy and he, with the pre-election campaign he is already carrying out all over Greece, seems to ignore them. Announcements from both sides indicate that the conflict will be fierce and will eventually lead to the split of the party.

The two opposing sides have a different view of what is happening at the base.

The “87” announce that the Kasselaki era has passed and they consider that the supremacy they have in the Central Committee also shows how things will go at the conference.

The side of the former president believes that the people who supported him last year in September will not leave him outside of Koumoundouros. SYRIZA is on the “razor’s edge” and nothing will be the same the day after the elections both in the party and in the Parliament.