“We decided that SYRIZA will not become an annex of Maximos. We may lose the formal title of official opposition, but we will be the essential opposition” said today the candidate for president Apostolos Gletsos, commenting on the rapid developments and the new split in SYRIZA-PS.

“I supported Kasselakis but it turned out to be just that, an extension of Maximos. From the first months we understood that it was a foreign body to SYRIZA – and dangerous for the Left.”

For the SYRIZA MPs who will follow him in the new party, he stated that “they will be judged by the people”.

For his candidacy and the next day in SYRIZA

“From now on things will work with more rigor. We will draw up a new statute that will not be able to enter anyone who passes by outside, sees a light and says hello, I want to become a member of parliament, to take a place in the organs and if you have a place, to become a leader. Things won’t be like this anymore.”

“Now we will get a Syrian president” he said characteristically.