By Antonis Anzoletou

Another restless night was experienced yesterday both in Koumoundourou and in Tavros in view of today’s and tomorrow’s congressional elections. The complaints were “raining” from the side of Stefanos Kasselakis and everything seems to be up in the air. SYRIZA and sources from the new president’s entourage exchanged heavy words that show that the two days will be very difficult for the approximately 700 member organizations. The big polls of Attica will be set up on Sunday, however many smaller organizations and others in the region have planned to wait for their members to vote tomorrow.

The “Kasselistas” and more specifically eight members of the KOES requested the immediate convening of the Central Organizing Committee of the Conference in order to check all the complaints, as well as the resignation of Rania Svigou. They reported in detail by raising the thermometer vertically.

“A) 17 Prefectural Committees have not yet received registers of members,
B) Entire Member Organizations have disappeared,
C) Thousands of members, old and new, who registered on time, even OM coordinators and Coordinating members are not in the registers that have been sent to those Prefects who have received registers
D) Transfers from Member Organization to Member Organization that have taken place do not appear to have been completed
E) Members without their consent and prior information have been found in organizations other than those they belong to and
F) Members who have left NEAR with public declarations appear registered in the membership registers and can participate normally in the electoral procedures

We request an urgent convening of the EPC tomorrow, Saturday, November 2, in order to resolve these unprecedented problems that jeopardize the validity of the electoral process.”

For Koumoundourou and executives who belong to the “87” an attempt is underway to delegitimize the conference with the Kasselakis side seeing that the associations have changed. They speak of “obscenities” and essentially what they emphasize is that the former president and his supporters are attempting to make a “heroic exit” from the party.

This was followed late last night by a post by Stefanos Kasselakis with the prefecture of Fokida “blacked out” on the map, talking about the exclusion of the entire prefecture from congressional elections.
Koumoundourou’s new response stated: “SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance is a constituted party, with institutions, procedures and Statutes. As much as some people don’t like it, the collective decisions of the K.E. they apply to everyone. As well as the specific rules for conducting the elections, decided by the Central Organizing Committee of the Conference. Those who refuse to hold open assemblies, prevent the voice of the presidential candidates from being heard, appoint election commissions of “non-members” by themselves, let them not accuse the collective bodies of the party of circumventing the Republic and of altering the election result. That is, for what they themselves are trying to do. Let the perpetrators not play it as victims.”
Within this environment and climate that has been created the conflict is in full swing. SYRIZA is a step before the split that may come sooner than many officials had calculated. Today is unpredictable mainly for how the process will develop in the local party organizations.