Sokratis Famellos assessed the party’s presence in the budget by placing him in the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA.

According to information, Mr. Famellos said that the party and the parliamentary group worked with reflexes in the budget debate and succeeded in this ten-day period “for SYRIZA to be the one that poses the real problems of Greek society as the official opposition on the ground”.

He noted that accuracy and excess profits are the main political dispute of the time and added that in the budget “the inadequacy of Mr. Mitsotakis to control the cartels and finally ended up with pampering measures that give the green light to the banks’ super profits.”

He referred to SYRIZA’s initiatives on the labor issue, saying that “they are important and documented as a necessity, when according to EUROSTAT data for the third quarter of 2024, there is a 2.9% decrease in hourly wages while in the rest of Europe wages in the corresponding period they rose by 4.4%”.

Regarding the issue of the Presidency of the Republic, Mr. Famellos, according to the same information, said that “we are not entering into any nomenclature today.

We act institutionally from the first moment, protecting the institution and the persons. SYRIZA PS will collectively decide on time and institutionally its attitude towards the presidential election”.

He also noted that “ND opened the issue and it seems that it includes it in the settlement of its internal party issues. The person who will be qualified must serve the institution and not party expedients. We will proceed with this responsibility in the next period as well.”

He also referred to the meeting with the president of PRATTO, Nikos Kotzias, saying, “we shared concerns about foreign policy after the silence of Mr. Mitsotakis in Parliament. We talked about progressive partnerships and not about anything else.”

Tomorrow Mr. Famellos will meet with the president of KOOS, Petros Kokkalis in order to discuss the green agreement and progressive partnerships.

Finally, in relation to the implementation of the Central Committee, he said that the message to the organizations is “with the restart steps, the social SYRIZA is expressed again at all levels, self-government, the workplace, education, etc.”

The Political Secretariat also discussed the formation of the Executive Office which will be the regular body for planning the political presence of the party.