The Greek main opposition left-wing party of SYRIZA sails in troubled waters, with the party’s Central Committee turning into a scene of tension and protests, which culminated in resignations.
Euclides Tsakalotos and Peti Perka, along with 44 other executives of “Umbrella” movement walked out of the “exit door” of the party.
In a lengthy text, the 46 members who sign state, among other things, that they feel “the need to protect the political space that we have served for so many years from being further dragged away.”
They leave open the window for the creation of a new party. “We choose to serve the possibility of defending a new victorious perspective of the radical Left”, they state.
However, they probably won’t be the last to go, given that Efi Ahtsioglou’s side published a harsh text against President Stefanos Kasselakis.
Stefanos Tzoumakas also resigned from SYRIZA. In his statements he said that “the problem is very serious, it is not of the current period”. He also said that “SYRIZA has no leadership after the departure of Tsipras, it goes from one political defeat to the next” and predicted that “by the time of the European elections, the political cycle will be closed, if not earlier”.
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The Tebonera group’s stance, on the other hand, was to remain in the party, but without a blank check to the president.
Meanwhile, another old member of the party, Yiannis Dragasakis, is also at the exit door. “I don’t know how much room there is for SYRIZA to remain on the Left”, he wrote in a post on Facebook, while still calling for initiatives “within and outside SYRIZA”.
Mr. Kasselakis, after the resignations, requested that the two MPs hand over their seats in Parliament to the party – something they do not intend to do – and insists that today is a new day for the party.
