He described it as difficult but necessary. exclusion of Polakis from SYRIZA’s KOthe famous Socrates. “It was not – and is not – an easy decision to exclude him Pavlos Polakis of the party’s parliamentary group. He played a very important role in the local government, in the party and especially in the SYRIZA government and in Parliament. But it was behavior that does not correspond to parliamentary procedure, to the ethos of the left and respect for individual rights, that is, it was about respecting the personality of each person”, emphasized the president of KO, speaking on the Municipal Radio of Thessaloniki.
Answering peaks of Pavlos Polakis himselfS. Famellos noted that “No one expected that one wrong move by P. Polakis would be eliminated by knockout. I assure you that there was no plan, no discussion and no preparation prior to the contested conduct. It was not a decision taken quickly or in the heat of the moment, but rather after a meeting with Stefanos Kasselakis based on the regulations of the Parliament and the SYRIZA-PS parliamentary group.”
“We must not give the government the right to hide its policy”
“We should not relate the incident to the correct political position of Pavlos Polakis that was taken in a very negative government bill,” added the president of the KO of SYRIZA-PS, stressing that “the government will try to hide behind this incident a tragic mental health bill.
At the same time, Mr. S. Famous he said that “we should not, in matters of conduct, give a very unjust government the right to hide its policy.”
What happened at the KO meeting
However, Pavlos Polakis wanted to be present at yesterday’s Parliamentary Group meeting, with S. Famellos denying tension between the two. “I simply asked him to leave, which he did before the start of our meeting.”
S. Famellos characterized the positions of the deputies at the KO meeting as “constructive”, adding that it contained proposals and positions on how SYRIZA-PS can improve, as well as criticism of mistakes:
“We discussed the reasons why we were late for the meeting, how we can be better in our areas, as well as the connection with the functioning of the party. Collectivity and camaraderie, which were recorded as our basic need at the previous SYRIZA-PS conference, are a positive message that we can send to the fragmented society that is often isolated at home, on television, on social media.”
“SYRIZA-PS is currently producing policies with a specific focus through elaborate proposals. The party’s parliamentary group is a good example of how we can work collectively with very good performance indicators,” said S. Famellos, adding that “SYRIZA-PS deputies are, first and foremost, in the parliamentary work”. He cited recent parliamentary initiatives: “The bills on precision, on taxation, our proposals for incentives to attract staff from health centres in the mountainous and island regions of our country, but also school staff in disadvantaged areas, highlight the coherence and seriousness of a progressive party putting forward government policy proposals.”
Referring to the intra-party dialogue before the SYRIZA-PS Congress, S. Famellos stressed that the climate of debate in the bodies “is productive”, as “there are differences but no one pulls the strings”, but, on the contrary, “a synthetic process”: “It is our statutory principle that the institutions function and that we submit our opinion to them, participating in the formation of the political plan. The more space we give to democracy within the party, the less discord there will be. Because a living democratic party does not leave room for disagreements but gives room for compromise”, noted the president of the SYRIZA-PS Parliamentary Group, Sokratis Famellos.