The developments are rapid, the executives are now speaking openly and the basic assessment of the majority – regardless of where everyone belongs within the party – is that after October SYRIZA will either not exist or will turn into a small satellite party, depending on whether will Kasselakis remain president or will Polakis take over, which is the most likely version of the developments.
It should also be pointed out that everyone in SYRIZA considers it certain that Alexis Tsipras will take a political initiative in the next period, which – as they assure – will have nothing to do with SYRIZA, although the “87” are acting on his behalf and many they say that if we have new internal party elections to elect the leadership, the “87”, that is, the Tsipras side, will field a candidate. With Sokratis Famellos or Nikos Faradouris prevailing. To the question why Tsipras, who has decided to move for his return to the political scene outside of SYRIZA, will “nominate” his own candidate for the leadership of SYRIZA, the answer given is that if an executive close to Tsipras is elected the new leader of SYRIZA, then the party will become a “good conduit” to Tsipras’ plans, even if that means integrating it into another party or party coalition.
The glove…
As far as the developments within SYRIZA are concerned, Stefanos Kasselakis is afraid to pick up the gauntlet thrown at him by his internal party opponents, because he now fears that the popular verdict will be against him. So he is trying to hang on to his chair and that is why he is challenging them to challenge him in an institutional way, that is to file a motion of censure against him at the Central Committee meeting next weekend. And at the same time he tries to block her…
After the alliance with Nikos Pappas, Stefanos Kasselakis tries to make a new agreement with Pavlos Polakis. He asks them to unite their forces in his favor in the Central Committee, so that a possible motion of censure against him from the side of Tsipras and the “87” does not pass, with two exchanges:
First, to “finish” that Tsipras with revelations about the “black money” during the time of the former president, “washing” both of them and let them have top and critical positions in both the government and the party under Tsipras. Indicative are the relevant excerpts from the post-reply of Stefanos Kasselakis’ brother to Nikos Farandouris: “Dear Nikolas, based on what we discussed in May in Houston, I will give you a few reminders: The black/white money that supported the party and for for this reason the party media were paid, how will the “new” leader solve it? Will you, like the rest of the MPs, donate white to the party? After all, you know the situation very well and all this saddens me and once again confirms why I and the majority of people detest politicians both here and abroad. It is a hypocritical profession. With snakes. I’m afraid my brother got involved with a “sneak pit” in politics.”
Second, to give them the function of the party in blank. Let them move the strings, but he should formally be leader until the end of his term, but also head of the party in the 2027 elections.
However, executives next to Pavlos Polakis consider an agreement of the MP of Chania with Stefanos Kasselakis and Nikos Pappas to be disastrous, considering the former insufficient to be president of SYRIZA and the latter synonymous with the corruption that Polakis theoretically fights.
Neither Nikos Pappas, however, is reportedly happy to share power with Pavlos Polakis, while it must be emphasized that at this stage neither Pavlos Polakis nor Nikos Pappas – and apparently neither Stefanos Kasselakis – are interlocutors with Alexis Tsipras.
Still, the information that Stefanos Kasselakis has met with Pavlos Polakis and they have agreed to continue together is not correct. In other words, Polakis has been convinced to back down and not file a motion of censure against Stefanos Kasselakis and file a candidacy for the leadership.
This is the goal of Mr. Kasselakis, but so far there has been no meeting and no one can claim with certainty that Pavlos Polakis will not submit the motion of impeachment against the president, as he announced at the last meeting of the Political Secretariat.
The only thing that is certain is that Stefanos Kasselakis is not going to appeal alone to his rebaptism from the base of the party, because now the base of the party is afraid of it.
It is indicative that his brother, in this above-mentioned post, which raises a stench and stench for the Tsipras period in the party, responds to Nikos Faradouris who called for elections for the emergence of a new leadership: “And how are you going to hold elections again? With what money? Let Mr. Tsipras and Mrs. Gerovasili, who constantly undermined Stefanos, put their hands in their pockets, as was proven in practice at the Congress. It will be a shame to ask people to queue and pay again.”
FOR THE MAJORITY OF EXECUTIVES
“Finished” Kasselakis
We previously described Kasselakis plans to remain in the leadership, but we are obliged to convey that at this stage the majority of SYRIZA executives both in the party and at the grassroots do not wish to continue. They consider him “finished”.
They charge him most of the responsibility for the defeat of the European elections. They blame him for the splits that followed his election (Umbrella left first and then 6+6) in the sense that he accepted them with … drumbeats and did not move unitedly as he should have. They accuse him of divisive reasoning and interventions, the senseless and meaningless -as they point out- “beheading” of Sokratis Famellos. Mainly, however, they consider – and this is the most basic – that he has proven in every way that he is not the person who can bring SYRIZA back to power and “win over Mitsotakis”, as he has publicly promised.
The orgy background
In the days leading up to next Saturday’s central committee meeting, the background is raging.
The «87» they are preparing a motion of censure but they have not taken final decisions yet and they have together Sokratis Famellos, Nikos Faradouris and many more.
Nikos Pappas, Nina Kasimati, Petros Pappas and Vassilis Kokkalis are the staff of Stefanos Kasselakis who are publicly playing defense, but in a recent dress rehearsal (s.s.: the proposal in favor of deleting Linos), with the Kasselakis-Pappas alliance in force , only 10 members of the central committee were found to sign.
Well, the Kasselakis – Pappas definitely need the Polakis forces in the central committee to prevent an attack from the “87” – for this reason they offered him the deletion of Athena Linou as well as his return to K.O. – and here it is the question: Can Pavlos Polakis promise Kasselakis and Pappas that he will not file a motion of impeachment against the president himself, but will have his people support the motion of impeachment of the “87” or will he direct them to vote blank or abstain? And what will this mean for the next day in SYRIZA?
And if it is the “87” who will decide to abstain, on the grounds that they have no reason to legitimize from now on the procedures in a party whose president has lost the confidence of K.O. and in a little while with these conditions it will be a thing of the past?
If this position prevails among the “87”, then we will de facto see a new split in SYRIZA and the conference – as long as no new ballots have been decided on in the central committee – will assume the character of establishing a new political body, completely controlled by Stefanos Kasselakis and his team.
The “87” are said to be split between the pasochogenites, those who represent “the Coalition of 3%” and those who have references to the ruling SYRIZA. Be that as it may, the decisions are not easy, while the scenario of new independences of MPs remains on the agenda, which had flared up on the night of the episodic meeting of the parliamentary group, but did not proceed in the end.
There is still no clear answer to the question if Pavlos Polakis is convinced by Stefanos Kasselakis to ally himself with him and does not file a motion of censure next Saturday, what will the “87” do, what will Alexis Tsipras decide, that is.
Final decisions have not yet been made in the staff of the former president and prime minister, but they are expected within the week and certainly before Saturday, when the most critical meeting of the SYRIZA central committee begins, until the next one.
Perhaps the reason for a new dynamic reaction of the “87”, after the departure of 8 from the Political Secretariat and the pressure for new intra-party ballots, is the formal deletion of Christos Spirtzis (another close friend of Nikos Pappas with whom he no longer speak) next Tuesday by the Ethics Committee.
#unwashed #coming
