“To take the step to claim again from the people to give us the mandate, not just to be an official opposition, but to be a new government for this country“, said Pavlos Polakis in his central pre-election speech in Athens.

“Some shamelessly played with the mandate of the people. Those who talk about ‘democracy’ and ‘coups’, went against the Greek people and gave the official opposition to PASOK, will get the answer they deserve very soon, on Sunday. On Monday, I want to be in the position of the leadership of SYRIZA, so that it can return to the position it deserves, on Monday I will be at the forefront of an attempt to form SYRIZA, on Monday we will start the counterattack”, said the candidate for the party’s president . He commented on Stefanos Kasselakis, among other things, that “it is forbidden to be a leader of a left-wing party and to have even an administrative relationship with companies that are in tax havens”.

“The plans to destroy the conference we repelled, they knew very clearly that they didn’t have a majority so they set up this whole scene of an invasion attempt by non-conference people to break it up, which was avoided and we went ahead with this declaration of the four candidates and the pre-election process in which I believe that with yesterday’s debate we brought the political debate back to where it should be, stimulating our world». He reiterated that his program is based on six pillars, which he believes respond to the needs of today’s challenges. “It is the program that a united SYRIZA must issue, which will address the people in an understandable way, describe specific changes, measurable, implementable, in conflict with the intertwining, which will improve the life of the social majority and give hope to the new generation“, he said.