By Antonis Anzoletos
172,000 wrote the “counter” in presidential ballot box in Koumoundourou as well from early noon on Sunday there was satisfaction. Nearly 110,000 new members turned out at 1,000 polling stations in order to support her re-election of Alexis Tsipras in the presidency of SYRIZA. The leader of the official opposition was at the party’s offices at seven in the evening in order to be informed together with his close associates about the final results. In the meeting he had with the journalists on Saturday at noon, he had pointed out that doubling the membership will be a major success.
The chairman of the Central Election Commission, Elias Nikolakopoulos, had predicted early in the afternoon that the number would be high. The executives who came to Koumoundourou all Sunday night talked about a lot of people who went to the polls at the last minute in order to vote. That is why they were given extensions where needed.
The same executives were talking about revitalization of Member Organizations. Many consisted of 50-60 people and now have at least five times their members. Other members of the Political Council spoke for a long time great participation in popular neighborhoods of Athens. The qualitative data of the new registrations are expected to be the subject of a special study in Koumoundourou.
Immediately after the announcement of the results sources SYRIZA recalled the goal set by Alexis Tsipras after the elections of July 2019 (30,000 were members then). He had stressed that 10% of SYRIZA voters (1,781,000) must become members, join the party, in order to match the electorate with the party SYRIZA. The official opposition claims that ten years after 2012, when it recorded its great electoral rise, SYRIZA not only remains in the forefront as the progressive pole of the political system, but is strengthened with new members in critical social categories (workers, new generation, farmers, small and medium).
«SYRIZA is a massive, popular, youthful and modern party“, Said Alexis Tsipras immediately after the announcement of the results and predicted that”SYRIZA of 30,000 members won three matches. SYRIZA of 172,000 members will be the first party in the next elections whenever they take place».
To Koumoundourou in order to congratulate Alexis Tsipras executives from all walks of life were found. Panos Skourletis, Efi Ahtsioglou Panos Rigas, Costas Zachariadis, Nikos Pappas, Giannis Ragousis, Alekos Flampouraris and others. The deputies, after all, had visited their polling stations since Friday, toured them, while most of them traveled to the region. Those who were in Koumoundourou agreed that the ballot box sent a message of optimism for the new course of SYRIZA and the political counterattack it is preparing in the run-up to the elections.
The results for the Central Committee are awaited with great interest until Monday afternoon. Attica will give 150 of its 300 members and will definitely be the barometer for balances within the party. “Presidents” are struggling to maintain their poweras captured at the conference (over 70%) and the “Umbrella” to overturn the correlations. The quotas (50% men – women), the restrictions for the deputies, but also the obligatory participation of executives coming from the enlargement are very likely to leave out front-line executives as well. The battle of the top ten or even the top twenty will be tough and will highlight the new strong faces in Koumoundourou.
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