SYRIZA: Stigma of defection and conspiracy plan those who leave keeping their seats

They denounce the independence of MPs to the SYRIZA PS, citing a “stigma of apostasy and a conspiracy plan”.

“At this moment, SYRIZA PS is completing the institutional procedures of the extraordinary conference with the speeches of the four candidates. Some, however, believe that they can move their parliamentary seats as they move their bodies,” stated circles of the official opposition.

“However, after yesterday’s events, it is easy to see that the seats that we hear are being vacated today are not transferred to Stefanos Kasselakis, but much more they carry the position of official opposition to Mr. Androulakis. In the same way that they will carry the stigma of apostasy. This can be nothing more than a conspiracy plan that wants to remove the role of official opposition from SYRIZA PS” they pointed out.

“So far! SYRIZA PS has proven that it is not a dead body like those who are trying to break its body. Because both in the opposition and in the government, he always expresses the social anxiety of the citizens and will not allow any project of interests to determine his future” they say.

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“Petros Pappas is a willing defector”

Especially regarding the independence of Petros Pappas, in a statement SYRIZA notes that he was “distinguished” for a series of positions and initiatives, which were outside the framework of the Left and for which he had been reprimanded.

“His political presence reflects the genre and stigma of the ‘new, coming’. He himself is a typical sample of Kasselakis party executive. Now that the liquidation plan of SYRIZA has been revealed, a leader and implementer is entering it.”

“He will always remain steeped in infamy. He will always bear the stigma of the willing renegade. Especially if a party is found, besides Kasselakis, to gather him and save him from political obscurity” concludes Koumondourou.

“We’re Electing a President, Not a Prince – Surrender Seats Those Who Leave”

A “fire team” against Stefanos Kasselakis, but also the MPs who support them, was 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.

“Today a democracy movement is being created”

The establishment of a new grassroots party was announced earlier by Stefanos Kasselakis, in the shadow of the events at the SYRIZA conference on Friday, with several of his supporters outside his offices in Tavros early on.

“We do not remain in an anti-democratic party, we create a party from society for society. We are creating a membership movement. And in this movement you all have equal participation and ownership. It belongs to you not me. It is difficult to make such a beginning, but what we are doing is the continuation of the democratic SYRIZA. We put people at the center of politics,” said Mr. Kasselakis.