With speeches by congressmen, the work of the extraordinary congress continues since the morning in the shadow of Friday’s episodes. The conference ends today
“Fire team” against Stefanos Kasselakis, but also the MPs who support them, were unleashed at the SYRIZA PS conference. With speeches by congressmen, the work of the extraordinary congress continues since the morning in the shadow of Friday’s episodes. The conference ends today, Saturday, as announced.
“Those MPs who are thinking of leaving the party should thank Alexis Tsipras for putting them on these lists and surrender the seats,” said Kostas Arvanitis. “The seats belong to SYRIZA PS. No more kidding, we will not tolerate it, we will be very strict, no more petting. The words ‘comrades’ have value and dignity, at least leave with dignity”, he added addressing those SYRIZA MPs who become independent to follow Stefanos Kasselakis.
“We are in the next day, we are electing a president of the party, not a ruler or a prince. And the article of the statute clearly states where the president moves, in the context of the decisions of the EC”, said Tryfon Alexiadis. He spoke about the problems of the party’s operation, adding that whoever is elected president, if he does not respect the statute and his commitments, he will be the first to criticize. He commented that “yesterday proved and highlighted our organizational crap, it was a black day. The photo I saw afterwards, so many people waiting outside and few people inside, is the responsibility of all of us and we must apologize profusely to the comrades who suffered and we must all pledge that it will not happen again.”
“Reality showed the plan of the split, but it was so obvious where it was going for so long”
“We now have to measure ourselves. Let the people come to the polls for the election of the leader to show that this space is not dying”, said Dimitris Chatzisokratis. Taking a swipe at Mr. Kasselakis, he commented that “what happened last night here and today in Tavros was the end of a chronicle of a hidden split and the beginning of a new course of another ‘movement'”. “The reality showed the plan for the split, but it was so obvious where it was going for so long,” he said. He commented that Mr. Kasselakis in Tavros “dare” to say that he was in a dilemma yesterday about whether they would legitimize the conference with silence or speak, “but delegates had spoken further ahead”. He said in particular that in any case the number of 2,784 who voted in favor of the decisions of the conference yesterday is greater than the 1,934 signatures delivered by Th. Tzakri. “That’s the reality,” he said.
The position that the main problem of SYRIZA was that “we stopped talking to each other politically, we lost the thread with the working class, George Vassiliadis expressed, arguing that the big bet of the next day is for SYRIZA to talk politically with society again. “We need a strong SYRIZA because the next day will be difficult. To build on our structures, to speak politically again, not to repeat our mistakes”, he said, adding that in order to do this, a strong SYRIZA is needed and to become a leader in the restructuring of the space. “Let’s get back out of the offices and back into the streets,” he continued, stressing that the elections should become a point of re-start.
Source: Skai
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