SYRIZA members are apparently ‘jumping ship’ left and right, with five top cadres announcing resignations weeks before yet another snap election. Party secretary and prominent member Tasos Koronakis tendered his resignation during the meeting of the party’s political secretariat on Monday.

Meanwhile, according to sources, Alternate Migration Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou and her husband, Alternate Minister for Shipping, Thodoris Dritsas, will not compete with SYRIZA in the upcoming elections. Christodoulopoulou has been the target of a firestorm of criticism for the government’s handling — of lack of handling — of the thousands of third country nationals that inundated several Aegean islands this summer under the guise of the Syrian civil war.

Another two SYRIZA deputies, Larisa MP Iro Dioti and Lasithi MP Kostas Dermitzakis, have issued statements explaining the reasons they will not stand for election with SYRIZA.

Koronakis charged that the party has been downgraded, while he referred to the polarization within SYRIZA, stressing that after a tough 7-month negotiation with the creditors a ‘serious process of self-criticism, evaluation and redesigning a new plan to disengage from the memoranda was needed’.