“The most difficult things are behind us, from tomorrow we can smile”, said the secretary of SYRIZA-PS, Rania Svigou during the closing proceedings of the conference of SYRIZA-PS. R. Svigou denounced the “thumping” that the members of the conference received yesterday and declared: “With threats and blackmail, they strengthened us even more.” In closing, R. Svigou submitted her proposal for an announcement of the Conference in which it will be noted, among other things, that the announcement of a new party by Stefanos Kasselakis is a “confession” that he did not have the majority of the conference and proves that “the planning was done by before even though he denied it”. In addition, he suggested including a call to the MPs who left to hand over their seats and “not to undermine the official opposition position that the people gave to SYRIZA-PS”. Along with the unanimous approval of the announcement, a resolution tabled by R. Svigou for the “reorganization of the Prefectural Committees” was also approved.

“Yesterday they did not succeed and SYRIZA is not finished. What has ended is hostility, ridiculousness, hatred, unreliability, lies within SYRIZA. Fortunately, these are over and not SYRIZA”, said Yannis Ragousis for his part.

He asserted that “after today’s statements by Stefanos Kasselakis there is no doubt that Plan B has been implemented which is nothing more than a very targeted, pre-planned defection that has been going on since yesterday afternoon which is apparently aimed at the loss of SYRIZA of the position of the official opposition”. He added that “there is no more anti-democratic action and act that one can implement than altering the popular verdict”. “Yes, Stefan Kasselakis, this is the definition of defection, pre-planned apostasy”, he continued, commenting that “apostates are also those who stay so that we can expel them so that it does not appear that it was their responsibility to complete this process of apostasy”.

“Many and continuous mistakes have been made to reach the decline and trivialization of the Kasselakis period”, underlined Christos Spirtzis, stressing the need to close the conference with “the decision for a normal political conference process”. Such a conference, he explained, “will prevent the entanglement to implement the plan of having two parties at 20-25% and yet working together to bring governments up and down.” “SYRIZA has history and will continue to have it,” he emphasized.

“At the most critical conference, we took the shocking decision that SYRIZA belongs to all of us and to Greek society”, underlined Katerina Notopoulou, expressing the belief that SYRIZA “will continue to defend the national interest of Greek society and not corruption” that it is in favor of “dialogue and political action and not with disrespect and parapolitics”. As he added, SYRIZA will “defend” the “Greek people who are facing horrible impasses and create this alternative”. He commented that at the previous conference Al. Tsipras had warned of “degeneration” and “then the party made a decision to do what it does not see”, because “either personal agendas or silence prevailed”. In closing, K. Notopoulou proposed the organization of a political re-establishment conference.